Wuzlam language

Wuzlam
Wuzlam
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Far North Province
Native speakers	(10,500 cited 1982)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Wandala–Mafa Mafa (A.5) South (a) Wuzlam; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	udl
Glottolog	wuzl1236

Wuzlam, also called Uldeme (Ouldémé), Udlam, Ouzlam, Uzam, Uzlam, and Mizlime, is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Chadic branch. It is spoken in northern Cameroon.

The Wuzlam [fr] (10,500 speakers) originally lived in the Wuzlam massif, in the canton of Mayo-Ouldémé [fr] (arrondissement of Tokombéré, department of Maya-Sava, Far North Region). The northeastern edge of this massif is inhabited by speakers of Pelasla or Gwendelé, culturally assimilated to the Wuzlam, or "Ouldémé".

Phonology

Consonants

Wuzlam consonants
		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Implosive		ɓ	ɗ
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kʷ
	Voiced	b	d	dʒ	g	gʷ
	Prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿʒ	ᵑg	ᵑgʷ
Nasal		m	n		ŋ	ŋʷ
Fricative	Voiceless	f	ɬ	s	x	xʷ
Fricative	Voiced	v	ɮ	z	ɣ	ɣʷ
Sonorant	Approximant		l	j		w
Sonorant	Vibrant		r

The palatal series of consonants are apico-alveolar [t͡s, d͡z, ⁿz, s, z] before /a, ə/ and dorso-palatal [t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ⁿʒ, ʃ, ʒ] before /e, i/.

Vowels

Wuzlam vowels
	Front	Non-front
Tense	e	a
Lax	i	ə

Colombel states that the four vowels are distinguished by palatalization and tension.

Notes

1 2 Wuzlam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Jaggar, Philip J. (1991). "Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-2 May, 1987, by Zygmunt Frajzyngier [review]". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 54 (1). University of London: 226–28 [227]. JSTOR 617393. Ouldémé (= Udlam/Wuzlam) is a Central Chadic-A language of the Matakam group ...
↑ ""U"". Sprachen der Welt: Ein weltweiter Index der Sprachfamilien, Einzelsprachen und Dialekte, mit Angabe der Synonyma und fremdsprachigen Äquivalente (in German). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur. 2001. pp. 497-502 [498]. doi:10.1515/9783110967494.497.
↑ Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.
↑ Colombel 2005a, p. 21.
1 2 Colombel 2005a, p. 23.

Works cited

Colombel, Veronique de (2005a). La langue ouldeme nord-Cameroun: grammaire, texte, lexique. Peeters. ISBN 90-429-1448-3.

Provoost, D. Pierre; Koulifa, S. Pierre (1987). Essai sur la langue uldémé. Archives d'anthropologie. Vol. 30. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Central. OCLC 18288360.
Colombel, Véronique de (2003). "Les végétaux dans la tradition orale ouldémé". Cahiers de Littérature Orale (in French) (53-54: Plantes et tradition orale): 233–265. HAL hal-04381733v2.
Colombel, Véronique de (2005b). Contes ouldémés (Nord-Cameroun) : l'idiot, l'infirme, l'orphelin et la vieille femme. Louvain: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-1613-5.

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[e18-1] 1 2 Wuzlam at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] Jaggar, Philip J. (1991). "Current Progress in Chadic Linguistics. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chadic Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, 1-2 May, 1987, by Zygmunt Frajzyngier [review]". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 54 (1). University of London: 226–28 [227]. JSTOR 617393. Ouldémé (= Udlam/Wuzlam) is a Central Chadic-A language of the Matakam group ...

[3] ""U"". Sprachen der Welt: Ein weltweiter Index der Sprachfamilien, Einzelsprachen und Dialekte, mit Angabe der Synonyma und fremdsprachigen Äquivalente (in German). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur. 2001. pp. 497-502 [498]. doi:10.1515/9783110967494.497.

[ALCAM2012-4] Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.

[FOOTNOTEColombel2005a21-5] Colombel 2005a, p. 21.

[FOOTNOTEColombel2005a23-6] 1 2 Colombel 2005a, p. 23.

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