Fe'fe'

WALS coordinates: 5° 15′ N, 10° 10′ E

spoken in Cameroon

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Fe'fe
Routledge:
    Other:
    • Fe?fe?
    ISO 639-3:

    Features

    Feature Value References
    Phonology
    Consonant Inventories Moderately small
    Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14)
    Consonant-Vowel Ratio Moderately low
    Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In both plosives and fricatives
    Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems Missing /p/
    Uvular Consonants None
    Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants
    Lateral Consonants No laterals
    Front Rounded Vowels None
    Syllable Structure Moderately complex
    Tone Complex tone system
    Absence of Common Consonants All present
    Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
    Other
    Para-Linguistic Usages of Clicks Affective meanings