| Ngaʼka | |
| Nativename: | Mungaʼka |
| Also Known As: | Bali |
| Region: | Bali Nyonga |
| States: | Cameroon |
| Ethnicity: | Chamba |
| Date: | 1982 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Volta-Congo |
| Fam4: | Benue–Congo |
| Fam5: | Bantoid |
| Fam6: | Southern Bantoid |
| Fam7: | Grassfields |
| Fam8: | Eastern Grassfields |
| Fam9: | Mbam-Nkam |
| Fam10: | Nun |
| Iso3: | mhk |
| Glotto: | mung1266 |
| Glottorefname: | Mungaka |
| Dia1: | Bati (Ti) |
| Dia2: | Bali (Li) |
| Dia3: | Bandeng (Nde) |
The Ngaʼka language, or Mungaʼka, also known as Bali, is a Grassfields language spoken by the people of Bali Nyonga in Cameroon. They are the descendants of the Chamba of northern Nigeria.[1]
The sounds of Munga'ka are as follows:[2]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | ɣ | ||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ʒ | |||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | ʉ | u | |
| High-Mid | ə | o | ||
| Low-Mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a |