Language
Kung language
Provisional — awaiting verification
From Wikipedia
Kung is a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon.
Phonology
Consonants
Tatang (2016) enumerates 24 plain consonants, 9 prenasalized consonants, 7 labialized consonants, and 6 palatalized consonants, for a total of 46.
Vowels
Tatang (2016) counts 10 vowel phonemes.
Tones
Kung contrasts six tones: three level tones (high, mid, low) and three contour tones (rising, high-mid, and falling). Tatang (2016) argues that the contour tones are combinations of register tones.
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