Mesaka, or Ugarə, is a
Tivoid language spoken in
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
.
Batomo may be a separate language, or it may be the same as Motomo (Oliti, Matchi), a dialect of
Iceve-Maci (''Ethnologue'', 22nd edition).
Phonology
Vowels
Vowel length is often contrastive in sequences of two similar vowels. Sequences of dissimilar vowels are not observed unless there's a consonant in-between.
Mesaka is also a
tonal language
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emph ...
with two tones: high and low.
References
Languages of Cameroon
Tivoid languages
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