Koshin language
Appearance
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Koshin | |
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Native to | Cameroon |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2011)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kid |
Glottolog | kosh1246 |
ELP | Koshin |
Koshin is a Southern Bantoid language of Cameroon. It is traditionally classified as a Western Beboid language, but that has not been demonstrated to be a valid family.
"Koshin" is the name of the village the language is spoken in.
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Nasal | m | n̪ | ɲ | ŋ | |
Plosive | voiceless | t̪ | k | ||
voiced | b | d̪ | g | ||
Affricate | voiceless | t̪s̪ | tʃ | kp | |
voiced | d̪z̪ | dʒ | gb | ||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s̪ | ʃ | |
voiced | z̪ | ʒ | |||
Approximant | l̪ | j | w |
Front | Central | Back | |||
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Less rounded | Plain | Less rounded | Plain | ||
Close | i̜ | i | ɨ̜ | u̜ | u |
Close-mid | e | ə | |||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |||
Open | æ | a |
There are three tones; high, mid, and low.
References
[edit]- ^ Koshin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Good, Jeff and Lovegren, Jesse and Mve, Jean Patrick and Tchiemouo, Nganguep Carine and Voll, Rebecca and Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. 2011. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica 17. 101–164.
- Blench, Roger, 2011. 'The membership and internal structure of Bantoid and the border with Bantu'. Bantu IV, Humboldt University, Berlin.
- Good, Jeff, & Jesse Lovegren. 2009. 'Reassessing Western Beboid'. Bantu III.
- Good, Jeff, & Scott Farrar. 2008. 'Western Beboid and African language classification'. LSA.