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| Mpade | ||||
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| Spoken in | Cameroon, Chad | |||
| Region | Far North Province, Cameroon; west Chad | |||
| Native speakers | 18,400 (date missing) | |||
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| 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]
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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 | |||||
Mpade has the following vowels.[2]
| front | back unrounded |
back rounded |
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| High | i | ɨ | u |
| Non-High | e | a | o |