Jagham language
The Jagham language, Ejagham, má ño chẹ mù má kì amá chì Ekoi, ì chì Ekoid language kì dì Naijẹria kpai òjì-kpalẹ kù má dóó kì cámẹroon ku má kìchì yé ì Ekoi people. Yé E- efu Ejagham chẹ kojì yé ì clácì ẹ́ ì prefix yé ì" ìchì ", analogous ùn̄ ẹ̀ì Bantu ki-efu KiSwahili
Amì Ekoi chì Amóne kàà ku má gbẹju achì Nsibidi ideographs, and may be the ones that created them.
Ìchì kú má kàá.
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]Ekoi chì ìchì kì chì dialectally árìda .amì yé í Ejagham chẹ gbárù ùgbò ù‘jo méjì kìchì Western kpaì Eastern:
- amì yà ì Western chì Bendeghe, Northern kpaì Southern Etung, Ekwe kpai Akamkpa-Ejagham;
- Abẹ kú má dì Eastern chì Keaka kpaì Obang.[1]
Blench (2019) also lists Ekin as an Ejagham dialect.[2]
Phonology
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che].[3]
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]Vowels
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]Writing system
Ene ki nyi Jagham alphabet chi John R. Watters kpai Kathie Watters odo 1981.
| a | b | bh | ch | d | e | ə | f | g | gb | gh | i | j | k | kp | m | n | ny | ŋ | o | p | r | s | t | u | ʉ | w | y |
Morphology
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]noun classes nwu chi.
| Noun class | Prefix | Concord |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | N- | w, ɲ |
| 2 | a- | b |
| 3 | N- | m |
| 5 | ɛ- | j |
| 6 | a- | m |
| 8 | bi- | b |
| 9 | N- | j, ɲ |
| 14 | ɔ- | b |
| 19 | i- | f |
References
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]- ↑ Blench, Roger. "Ekoid: Bantoid languages of the Nigeria-Cameroun borderland" (PDF). p. 1.
- ↑ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ↑ Watters, John R. (1981). A Phonology and Morphology of Ejagham- with notes on Dialect Variation. Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles.
Works cited
[nwọ́che | nwó étéwn che]- Tadadjeu, Maurice (1993). "Cameroun". In Rhonda L. Hartell (ed.). Alphabets des langues africaines. Dakar: Unesco et Société internationale de linguistique.