Classification
Afade is a member of the Biu-Mandara group of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is related to the Cameroonian languages Mpade, Maslam, Malgbe, Mser, and Lagwan.
History
{{Empty section|date=October 2015}}Phonology
Consonants| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | | Nasal | m | n |
|---|
| Tenuis plosive | p | t | k | kp | ʔ |
|---|
| Voiced plosive | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡb | ʔ |
|---|
| Ejective | pfʼ | t̪θʼ | cʼ | kʼ |
|---|
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ |
|---|
| Fricative | f | s ɬ | ʃ | h |
|---|
| Resonant | l r | j | w |
|---|
Afade has a large inventory of consonants, including ejectives, implosives, and labial-velar stops. The vowels of Afade are /i u e ɤ o ɛ ɔ a ɑ/. /a/ is front, rather than central.[1]
Geographic distribution
{{references|section|date=November 2015}}The speakers of Afade are the indigenous Kotoko people of Cameroon and Nigeria. In Cameroon, it is spoken in the far North region: Logone-and-Chari division, south Makari subdivision, Afade area. The language is spoken by 6,700 Cameroon speakers.
In Nigeria, Afade is spoken by 40,000 speakers in Borno state, Ngala LGA, 12 villages.
There are no known dialects.
Notes
1. ^Bouny, P. 1977. Inventaire phonetique d'un parler Kotoko: le Mandagué de Mara. In Caprile, Jean-Pierre (ed.), Etudes Phonologiques Tschadiennes, 59–77. Paris: Société d'Études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France.
References
- P. Bouny. 1977. "Inventaire phonetique d'un parler Kotoko: le Mandagué de Mara," Etudes Phonologiques Tschadiennes. Ed. Jean-Pierre Caprile. Paris: SELAF. Pages 59–77.
{{Languages of Cameroon}}{{Languages of Nigeria}}{{Biu–Mandara languages}}{{Authority control}}{{BiuMandara-lang-stub}}{{Nigeria-stub}}{{Cameroon-stub}} 3 : Biu-Mandara languages|Languages of Nigeria|Languages of Cameroon