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Mundang is an Mbum language of southern Chad and northern Cameroon, spoken by the Mundang people.

The Gelama dialect of Cameroon may be a separate language.

• Distribution

• Phonology

• Consonants

• Vowels

• Writing system

• References

Mundang, spoken in Cameroon by 44,700 speakers (SIL 1982), is mainly spoken in Mayo-Kani department, Far North Region, in the communes of Mindif, Moulvouday, and Kaélé. It is also spoken to a lesser extent in the south of Mayo-Kebi, in the east of Bibemi commune (Bénoué department, Northern Region), towards the Chadian border. Mundang of Lere (in Chad) and Mundang of Cameroon (centered in Lara and Kaélé) are highly similar.cite-ref-alcam2012-2-0[2]

| | | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar | Glottal |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| Plosive / Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | k͡p | ʔ |

| Plosive / Affricate | voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ɡ͡b | |

| Plosive / Affricate | prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮd͡ʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑᵐɡ͡b | |

| Plosive / Affricate | implosive | ɓ | ɗ | | | | |

| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | | | h |

| Fricative | voiced | v | z | ʒ | | | |

| Nasal | voiced | m | n | | ŋ | | |

| Nasal | glottalized | ˀm | ˀn | | | | |

| Tap | Tap | ⱱ | ɾ | | | | |

| Lateral | Lateral | | l | | | | |

| Glide | central | | | j | | w | |

| Glide | glottalized | | | ʔj | | ʔw | |

• /ɓ, ɗ/ may also be heard as laryngealized [ɓ̰, ɗ̰] among speakers.

• /ʔw/ can also be heard as two laryngealized allophones [ʔv̰, ʔw̰].

• Sounds /ɓ, k/ may be heard as fricatives [β, ɣ] in intervocalic positions.

• /h, w/ may be heard as palatal [ç, ɥ] when preceding /i/.

• /ɾ/ can also range to a retroflex [ɽ] among dialects or a trill [r] when geminated.

| | Front | Central | Back |

|---|---|---|---|

| Close | i iː | ə | u uː |

| Near-close | ɪ ɪː | ə | ʊ ʊː |

| Close-mid | e eː | ə | o oː |

| Open-mid | ɛ ɛː | | ɔ ɔː |

| Open | | a aː | |

• /ə/ may also range to a close [ɨ].cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-4[4]

| | Front | Central | Back |

|---|---|---|---|

| Close | ĩ ĩː | | ũː |

| Near-close | ɪ̃ ɪ̃ː | | ʊ̃ː |

| Open-mid | ɛ̃ː | | ɔ̃ː |

| Open | | ã ãː | |

| Majuscules | A | B | Ɓ | C | D | Ɗ | E | Ə | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | Ŋ | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |

|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

| Minuscules | a | b | ɓ | c | d | ɗ | e | ə | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | r | s | t | u | v | w | y | z |

Nasalization is marked by a tilde: ã, ẽ, ə̃, ĩ, õ

cite-note-e26-11. Mundang at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023)

cite-note-alcam2012-22. ↑ citerefbinam-bikoi2012Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

cite-note-33. ↑ citerefelders2000Elders, Stefan (2000). Grammaire Mundang. Leiden University.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefelders2006Elders, Stefan (2006). Issues in comparative Kebi-Benue (Adamawa). In Africana Linguistica 12. pp. 37–88.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)