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The Kom language, Itaŋikom, is the language spoken by the Kom people of Cameroon. Shultz 1997a and Shultz 1997b (available online) contain a comprehensive description of the language's grammar.

Kom
Itaŋikom
Native to	Cameroon
Region	North-West Province
Native speakers	210,000 (2005)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring Center Kom
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bkm
Glottolog	komc1235
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Kom is a tonal language with three tones.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Kom consonants[3]

	Bilabial		Labio- dental		Alveolar		Palatal		Labial- velar		Velar
Plosive		b			t	d	c	ɟ			k	ɡ
Fricative			f	v	s	z						ɣ
Nasal		m				n		ɲ				ŋ
Approximant								j		w
Lateral approximant						l

Vowels

Kom vowels[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Close-mid	e		o
Open	a

Orthography

Kom uses a 29-character Latin-script orthography based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages.[4] It contains 20 single characters from the ISO set, six digraphs, and three special characters: barred I (Ɨɨ), eng (Ŋŋ), and an apostrophe (’). The digraphs ae and oe are also written as ligatures æ and œ, respectively.

Kom alphabet[5]

Letters	a	ae	b	ch	d	e	f	g	gh	i	ɨ	j	’	k	l	m	n	ŋ	ny	o	oe	s	t	u	ue	v	w	y	z
IPA[6]	/a/	/æ/	/b/	/c/	/d/	/e/	/f/	/g/	/ɣ/	/i/	/ɨ/	/ɟ/	/ʔ/	/k/	/l/	/m/	/n/	/ŋ/	/ɲ/	/o/	/œ/	/s/	/t/	/u/	/y/	/v/	/w/	/j/	/z/

The orthography is mostly phonemic, although the characters ae, oe, ue, and ’ represent allophonic variations: the three vowel digraphs are the product of vowel coalescence, and the apostrophe represents the glottal stop, a syllable-final variant of /k/.

Although Kom has eight phonetic tones,[3] only two are marked in writing: the low tone [˨] is written with a grave accent (◌̀) over the vowel (e.g. kàe [kæ̀] "four"), and the high-low falling tone [˦˨] is written with a circumflex (◌̂) over the vowel (e.g. kâf [kâf] "armpit").[5]

References

Bibliography

• Shultz, George, 1997a, Kom Language Grammar Sketch Part 1, SIL Cameroon
• Shultz, George, 1997b, Notes on Discourse features of Kom Narrative Texts, SIL Cameroon
• Jones, Randy, compiler. 2001. Provisional Kom - English lexcion. Yaoundé, Cameroon: SIL

External links

• Kom - English dictionary
• Article about Kom language

На других языках

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[de] Kom (Sprache)

Die Sprache Kom (Eigenbezeichnung Itaŋikom) ist eine bantoide Sprache, die von der Volksgruppe der Kom in Kamerun gesprochen wird.[2] Kom ist eine Tonsprache mit drei Tönen.[3]

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- [en] Kom language (Cameroon)

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[fr] Kom (langue des Grassfields)

Le kom (ou bamekon, bikom, itangikom, kong, nkom) est une langue des Grassfields du groupe Ring parlée par les Kom au Cameroun, dans la région du Nord-Ouest, au sud du département du Boyo, au sud-est de la ville de Wum, au nord-est de Bamenda, également dans les grands centres urbains[2]. C’est une langue à tons et à classe nominale. 233 000 personnes parlent le kom en 2005[3].

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[ru] Ком (язык)

Ком (Itaŋikom) — язык народа ком, относится к грассфилдской группе бантоидных языков. Распространён на территории северо-западной провинции Камеруна.

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