Kom language (Cameroon)

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The Kom language (also Itaŋikom) is the language spoken by the Kom people in Northwest Province in Cameroon. It is classified as a Central Ring language of the Grassfields, Southern Bantoid languages in the Niger-Congo language family.[1] Kom is a tonal language with three tones.[1]

Phonology

Consonants

Kom consonants[2]
  Bilabial Labio-
dental 		Alveolar Palatal Labial-
velar 		Velar
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Fricative     Template:IPAplink Template:IPAplink Template:IPAplink Template:IPAplink           Template:IPAplink
Nasal   Template:IPAplink       Template:IPAplink   Template:IPAplink       Template:IPAplink
Approximant               Template:IPAplink   Template:IPAplink    
Lateral           Template:IPAplink            

Vowels

Kom vowels[2][3]
  Front Central Back
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Open Template:IPA link Template:IPAplink

Orthography

Kom uses a 29-character Latin-script orthography based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages.[3] It contains 20 single characters from the ISO set, six digraphs, and three special characters: barred I (Ɨɨ), eng (Ŋŋ), and an apostrophe (’). The digraphs ae and oe are also written as ligatures æ and œ, respectively.

Kom alphabet[4]
Letters a ae b ch d e f g gh i ɨ j ’ k l m n ŋ ny o oe s t u ue v w y z
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The orthography is mostly phonemic, although the characters ae, oe, ue, and ’ represent allophonic variations: the three vowel digraphs are the product of vowel coalescence, and the apostrophe represents the glottal stop, a syllable-final variant of Template:IPAslink.

Although Kom has eight phonetic tones,[2] only two are marked in writing: the low tone [Script error: No such module "IPA".] is written with a grave accent (◌̀) over the vowel (e.g. kàe [Script error: No such module "IPA".] "four"), and the high-low falling tone [Script error: No such module "IPA".] is written with a circumflex (◌̂) over the vowel (e.g. kâf [Script error: No such module "IPA".] "armpit").[4]

References

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