Ntcham language should not be confused with Bassari language (Senegal).
| Ntcham | |
| Nativename: | Basari |
| States: | Togo, Ghana |
| Ethnicity: | Gurma |
| Date: | 2004–2013 |
| Ref: | e26 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Gur |
| Fam4: | Northern |
| Fam5: | Oti–Volta |
| Fam6: | Gurma |
| Lc1: | bud |
| Ld1: | Ntcham |
| Lc2: | aks |
| Ld2: | Akaselem |
| Glotto: | ntch1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Gurma A |
| Script: | Latin (Basari alphabet) Basari Braille |
Ntcham, or Basari, is a language of the Gurma people in Togo and Ghana. Akaselem (Tchamba) is frequently listed as a separate language.
The phonology used by Chanard and Hartell is given below. Abbott and Cox (1966) had a similar phonology, though the non labial-velar voiceless plosives were analyzed as aspirated, and vowel length was not distinguished.[1] Badie (1995) analyzes pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ as pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/ and also includes phonemic pronounced as /link/, vowel lengths, and nasalized vowels.[2]
| voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
Ntcham also has high, low, and mid tones.
| Majuscules | A | B | C | D | EE | F | G | GB | I | J | K | KP | L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minuscules | a | b | c | d | ee | f | g | gb | i | j | k | kp | l | |
| Majuscules | M | N | NY | Ŋ | ŊM | OO | Ɔ | P | S | T | U | W | Y | |
| Minuscules | m | n | ny | ŋ | ŋm | oo | ɔ | p | s | t | u | w | y | |
Long vowels are indicated by doubling the letter ‹aa, ii, ɔɔ, uu› and two vowels are always long ‹ee, oo›.The tones are represented by acute accents for high tone and grave accents for low tone, on the vowels and the consonants m, n, b, l : ‹ḿ, ń, b́, ĺ›, ‹m̀, ǹ, b̀, l̀›.