Awing (Mbwe'wi)

Awing is a member of the Eastern Grassfields branch of the Southern Bantoid language family. It is spoken by about 19,000 people in Mezam division of North West Province of Cameroon, particularly in the village of Awing-Bambaluwe.

Related languages include Bafut, Bambili-Bambui, Kpati, Mendankwe-Nkwen, Ngemba and Pinyin.

Awing alphabet and pronunciation

Awing alphabet and alphabet and pronunciation

Notes

Awing is a tonal language with tones indicated as follows: high and mid-high tones are indicated by an acute accent: á = /a˥/ and /a˦/; a low tone is indicated by a grave accent: à = /a˩/; other tones are indicated as follows: ǎ = /a˩˦/ or /a˩˥/, and â = /a˦˩/ or /a˥˩/.
The letters J and Z are pronounced [ʤ] and [ʣ] only after nasal consonants, and [ʒ] and [z] elsewhere.

Download an Awing alphabet chart (Excel)

Details of Awing provided by Michael Peter Füstumum, with additions by Wolfram Siegel.

Sample videos in Awing

Links

Information about Awing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awing_language
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awing
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awing
http://www.ethnologue.com/18/language/azo
http://www.silcam.org/documents/AwingOrthography2005.pdf

Grassfields languages

Aghem, Ambele, Awing, Baba, Babanki, Bambalang, Bamukumbit, Bamum, Bamunka, Bangolan, Feʼfeʼ, Fut, Ghomalaʼ, Kenswei Nsei, Kom, Kwaʼ, Limbum, Mfumte, Mmen, Ndemli, Ngaʼka, Ngiemboon, Ngomba, Ngombale, Nso, Oku, Vengo, Yamba, Yemba

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 08.10.25

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