Iceve-Maci language

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

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(12,000 cited 1990)^[1]

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

	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

Writing system

Ceve
Oliti
Iceve
Native to	Cameroon, Nigeria
Native speakers	(12,000 cited 1990)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Tivoid Central (A) Ceve
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`bec`
Glottolog	`icev1238`