Fang language

Spoken in

  • Niger - Congo languages
  • Catch

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Catch (also Pahouin and Pamue ) is the language of fishing in West Africa. It is attributed to the Bantu languages ​​within the Benue - Congo languages ​​.

Your approximately 1,020,000 speakers live in Equatorial Guinea ( 297,000 speakers, census 2007), Gabon ( 588,000 speakers, census 2007), in the south of Cameroon ( 121,000 speakers, census 2006) and in the Republic of Congo ( 8100 spokesman, census 2006).

The fishing is an important lingua franca in the north of Gabon and in Equatorial Guinea and has a rich, only partially explored oral literature. It is written in the Latin script.

Classification

Fang is a Northwest Bantu language and belongs to Yaunde - fishing group that is classified as Guthrie Zone A70. It is related to the languages ​​Bulu, Eton and Ewondo and, like many other languages ​​in Zone A by Malcolm Guthrie characteristics that can not be encountered in the rest of Central Bantu.

Phonetics and phonology

The catch is a tonal language and has a complicated morphonology. Among the 18 vowel and 23 consonant phonemes are also labial - velar kp and gb

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