Ejagham

WALS coordinates: 5° 25′ N, 8° 40′ E

spoken in Cameroon, Nigeria

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Ejagham
Routledge:
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Average Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants No laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels High only Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone Complex tone system Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants All present Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants Labial-velars Phonology
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132A Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories 3 Lexicon
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133A Number of Basic Colour Categories 3-4 Lexicon
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134A Green and Blue Black/green/blue Lexicon
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135A Red and Yellow Red/yellow Lexicon
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