Mbum is a member of the Mbum-Day branch of the Atlantic-Congo branch of the language family spoken in Cameroon and Central African Republic by about 51,000 people. It is also known as West Mbum, Buna, Mboum, Mboumtiba and Wuna.
Mbum is spoken particularly in the Adamawa Region in central Cameroon.
This chart shows the letters used in Mbum, their names and their pronunciation. The names of the letters are not certain.
Download a chart of the Mbum alphabet and pronunciation (PDF, in German)
Information about Mbum pronunciation complied by Wolfram Siegel
Information about the Mbum language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbum_language
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/mdd
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 15.06.26
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