Mpade language

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Mpade
Spoken in	Cameroon, Chad
Region	Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad
Native speakers	18,400  (date missing)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara B Kotoko–Yedina Kotoko Mpade
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mpi
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Mpade is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwestern Chad. Dialects are Bodo, Digam, Mpade, Shoe, and Woulki.^[1]

Phonology

Consonants

Mpade has the following consonants.^[2]

		Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
					Plain	Labialized
Stops and affricates	Voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kʷ
	Voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ	ɡʷ
	Ejective		tsʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ
	Implosive	ɓ	ɗ
	Prenasalized	mb	nd		ŋɡ
Fricatives	Voiceless	f	s	ʃ			h
	Voiced		z
Nasals		m	n
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowels				j		w

Vowels

Mpade has the following vowels.^[2]

	front	back unrounded	back rounded
High	i	ɨ	u
Non-High	e	a	o

Notes

1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
2. ^ ^{a b} Allison 2006.

References

• Ethnologue entry for Mpade
• Sean Allison. 2006. "Alphabet et orthographe de Kotoko de Makary (mpadɨ)," manuscript. Available on-line

External links

• Map of Mpade language from the LL-Map project
• Information on Mpade language from the MultiTree project