Mesaka | |
Nativename: | Ugarə |
States: | Cameroon |
Speakers: | 14,000 |
Date: | 1982 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
Fam5: | Bantoid |
Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
Fam7: | Tivoid |
Iso3: | iyo |
Glotto: | mesa1245 |
Glottorefname: | Mesaka |
Mesaka, or Ugarə, is a Tivoid language spoken in Cameroon.
Batomo may be a separate language, or it may be the same as Motomo (Oliti, Matchi), a dialect of Iceve-Maci (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).
Vowel length is often contrastive in sequences of two similar vowels. Sequences of dissimilar vowels are not observed unless there's a consonant in-between.
Mesaka is also a tonal language with two tones: high and low.[1]