Ghomalaʼ language

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Ghomala or Ghɔmáláʼ is a major Bamileke language spoken in Cameroon, originally in the following departments of the West region:

• Mifi, Koung-Khi and Hauts-Plateaux: most of the three departments (except extreme south and except pockets in the north and west)
• Menoua: east of the department
• Bamboutos: a corner in the south

Phonology

References

Bibliography

• Domche Teko, Engelbert (2012). Étude sociolinguistique du ghomálá-jo dans l'Ouest-Cameroun (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. p. 74. ISBN 978-2-296-96460-0.
• Eichholzer, Erika; et al., eds. (2002). Dictionnaire ghomalaʼ (PDF) (in French).
• Kayum Fokoue, Carole (2011). De la terminologie de l’éducation à la citoyenneté en langues camerounaises: Le cas du ghómaùláʼ (PDF) (Mémoire) (in French). Université de Yaoundé I.
• Mba, Gabriel (1997). "Les extensions verbales du Ghomala" (PDF). Journal of West African Languages (in French). 26 (1): 77–101.
• Nissim, Gabriel M. (1981). Le Bamileke-Ghomáláʼ (parler de Bandjoun, Cameroun): phonologie - morphologie nominale; comparaison avec des parlers voisins. Langues et civilisations à tradition orale. Paris: SELAF. ISBN 978-2-85297-104-2.
• Rolle, Nicholas (2025). "A tonological rarity: Tone-driven epenthesis in Ghomala'". In Kuznetsova, Natalia; Anderson, Cormac; Easterday, Shelece (eds.). Rarities in phonetics and phonology: Structural, typological, evolutionary, and social dimensions. Berlin: Language Science Press. pp. 359–391. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15148178.

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