Iceve-Maci language

Ceve (Iceve), or Iceve-Maci, is a Tivoid language of the Cameroons. The divergent dialects are Ceve proper (Becheve), and Maci (Matchi, Oliti).

Ceve
Oliti
Iceve
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	(12,000 cited 1990)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Tivoid Central (A) Ceve
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bec
Glottolog	icev1238

Ceve
People	Baceve
Language	Iceve

Writing system

Iceve-Maci Alphabet

a

b

c

d

e

ɛ

f

g

gb

gh

h

i

k

kp

l

m

n

ŋ

o

ɔ

p

s

t

u

ʉ

v

w

y

z

Multigraphs

Digraphs	mb	nd	ng	ny	nz	ŋw	ŋm
IPA	mb	nd	ŋg	nj	ndz	ŋw	ŋm
Trigraph	mgb
IPA	ŋmgb

Tone indication

Notation	á	à or a	â	ă	àâ
Tone description	High	Low	Falling	Rising	Falling-rising

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar/Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n		ŋ	ŋm
Plosive	p b mb	t d ⁿd		k g ŋg	kp gb ŋmgb
Affricate		t͡s ~ t͡ʃ d͡z ~ d͡ʒ ⁿd͡z
Fricative	f v	s ~ ʃ				h
Approximant		l	j ɲj		w ⁿw

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i	ɨ	u
Near-close			ʊ
Close-mid	e		o
Open/Open-mid	a		ɔ

Tones

There are 5 tones: high, low, falling, rising and rising-falling.