Mbe yare ne da al'ummar Mbube na yankin Ogoja na jihar Cross River a Najeriya ke magana da shi, wanda yake da kimanin mutane 65,000 a shekarar 2011. A matsayin kusan duk sune su Ekoid dake Kudancin Bantoid, yaren Mbe kuma ya kusa yayi kama da Yaren.

Harshen Mbe
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 mfo
Glottolog mbee1249[1]

Yadda ake Furtashi gyara sashe

Wasulla gyara sashe

Wasulan sune i e ɛ a ɔ o u.

Baƙaƙe gyara sashe

Mbe yana da ƙayyadaddun baƙaƙen ƙirƙira, idan aka kwatanta da harsunan Ekoid, mai yiwuwa saboda tuntuɓar harsunan Cross River dake makwabta.

Duk baƙaƙen Mbe ban da labial–velars ( kp ɡb w ) da n suna da takwarorinsu.

m mʲ mʲ n

Akwai 'yan baƙaƙe waɗanda ke faruwa kawai a cikin wasu kalmomi, kamar /fʲ hʲ/.

Wani ƙarin bambanci mai ban sha'awa shine tsakanin fortis da lenis. Fortis (dogon?) /kʷ̹/ rabin zagayen wasali mai zuwa kamar /e/, alhali lenis /kʷ̜/ ba.

Sautin gyara sashe

Sautunan suna da tsayi, ƙananan, tashi, fadowa da ƙasa ; tashi da faɗuwa na iya zama jerin sautin.


Manazarta gyara sashe

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Mbe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.