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Moloko (Məlokwo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in northern Cameroon.[1]

Moloko
Məlokwo
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	(8,500 cited 1992)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa (A.5) South (a) Moloko
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mlw
Glottolog	molo1266
ELP	Baka (Far North Region, Cameroon)

The highly endangered Baka is either a dialect or a closely related language.[2]

The Melokwo (8,500 speakers)[1] traditionally inhabit the Moloko massif, an inselberg isolated in the plain, east of the Mandara Mountains, between the Mayo-Mangafé River and Mayo-Ranéo River. They live in the village of Mokyo and the surrounding areas of Makalingay canton, Tokombéré arrondissement, Mayo-Sava department.[3]

According to local oral history, the Moloko communities are made up of three distinct ethnic groups, rather than a singular one. During the Fulani invasions of the 19th century, these groups sought refuge near the Moloko mountain, where they would eventually come to speak the same language.[2]

Phonology

Vowels

Moloko has ten surface phonetic vowels, but it could be represented as one phonetic vowel (/a/). [4] 

Moloko is said to have only 1 phonemic vowel /a/, some analyses count 2 vowels /a, ə/.[5][6]

Consonants

Moloko has 32 consonant phonemes. There are four places of articulation(labial, alveolar, velar/glottal, and labio-velar) and seven manners of articulation (stops, affricates, fricatives, lateral fricatives, lateral approximants, approximant, and flaps) used in Moloko. A table for this will be presented here:[7]

Consonants of Moloko[7]

		Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal	Labio-Velar	Glottal
Stop	Unvoiced	p	t t͡ʃ	k	kʷ
	Voiced	b	d d͡ʒ	g	gʷ
	Prenasal	ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑg	ᵑgʷ
	Implosive	ɓ	ɗ
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Fricatives	Unvoiced	f	s ɬ			h hʷ
	Voiced	v	z ɮ
	Prenasal		ⁿʒ
Approximant		w	l	j
Tap		ѵ	ɾ

Morphology

Noun Morphology

Moloko nouns are placed at the head of a noun phrase.[7] No case markers are found in Moloko’s morphology. Instead, case markers are indicated through word order and the use of markings in verbs and adpositions (prepositions and postpositions).[7]

Further reading

• Friesen, Dianne (2017). A Grammar of Moloko. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.824016. ISBN 978-3-946234-63-0.

References

На других языках

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- [en] Moloko language

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[fr] Moloko (langue)

Le moloko (məloko en moloko), est une langue tchadique du groupe biu-mandara, parlée dans l'Extrême-Nord du Cameroun, le département du Mayo-Sava, l'arrondissement de Tokombéré, le canton de Makalinkay, aux environs de la montagne de Melokwo[1]. Il est aussi appelé melokwo, mokyo, molko, molkoa, molkwo ou molokwo.

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[ru] Молоко (язык)

Молоко (Məlokwo) — афразийский язык, на котором говорят в основном в Северном Камеруне. Носителей языка насчитывается примерно 8 500 человек (1992). Язык молоко распадается на диалекты муянг, северный гизига, микири и другие. Носители языка молоко также говорят на языках фула и французском. Язык молоко имеет множество альтернативных названий: Melokwo, Mokyo, Molko, Molkoa, Molkwo, Molokwo[1]. Большинство носителей языка — христиане.

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