Manza | |
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Mandja | |
Native to | Central African Republic |
Ethnicity | Mandja |
Native speakers | (220,000 cited 1996) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
mzv |
Glottolog |
manz1243 |
Manza (Mānzā, Mandja) is a Ubangian language spoken by the Mandja people of the Central African Republic. It is closely related to Ngbaka and may be to some extent mutually intelligible.
The phonology consists of the following: [2]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar |
Labio- velar |
Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ŋ͡m | ||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | k͡p | ||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡ͡b | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ᵑᵐɡ͡b | |||
implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | |||
voiced | v | z | |||||
prenasal | ⁿz | ||||||
Tap | ⱱ | ɾ | |||||
Approximant | (l) | j | w |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | ĩ | ũ | |
Open-mid | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | |
Open | ã |
a | b | bh | d | dh | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | h | i | k | kp | l | m | mb | n | nd | ndj | ngb | ŋ | ŋg | ŋm | o | ɔ | p | r | s | t | u | v | vb | w | y | z |
The tones are indicated on the letters using diacritics: