Awing (Mbwe'wi)

Awing is a Southern Bantoid language 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

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.

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

Bantoid languages

Awing, Bamum, Limbum, Nso, Pinyin, Tiv

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 23.04.21

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