The Phonology Sketch of the Iyive Language
Issue Date:
2012
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Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation
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90 pages
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This paper provides a phonology sketch of the Iyive language spoken by around 2000 people in
the Akwaya Sub-division. The Yive are situated in the South West Region of the Republic of
Cameroon in the Manyu Division. Many of the Yive people are currently residing in Nigeria
after an intertribal conflict. But the government have intervened and are helping the Yive to
rebuild back on their land in Cameroon and the Yive are gradually moving back.
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Published
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction -- 2 Consonants -- 2.1 Consonant Phoneme Inventory -- 2.1.1 Plosives -- 2.1.2 Affricates -- 2.1.3 Fricatives -- 2.1.4 Glottal Fricative -- 2.1.5 Nasals and Prenasalised -- 2.1.6 Approximants -- 2.2 Consonant Modification -- 3 Vowels -- 3.1 Vowel Phoneme Inventory -- 3.2 Long Vowels -- 3.3 Vowel Harmony -- 3.4 Vowel Harmony in Natural Speech -- 3.5 Vowel Glide -- 4 Syllable Structure -- 5 Tone -- 6 Plural Formations -- 7 Vowel Prefixes -- 7.1 Prefix Agreement -- 8 Morphophonemic Alternations -- 8.1 Palatalisation -- 8.2 Vowel change -- 8.3 Hiatus Resolution -- 8.3.1 Vowel elision -- 8.3.2 Vowel Assimilation -- 8.4 Epenthetic vowels -- 9 Conclusion -- 10 Bibliography -- Appendix A - Iyive Word List -- Appendix B – Tentative Iyive Alphabet Chart
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Entry Number:
52746