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Aghem
Wum
Yum
Native to	Cameroon
Region	Menchum
Native speakers	(27,000 cited 2000)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Southern Bantoid Grassfields Ring West Aghem
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agq
Glottolog	aghe1239

Aghem (Wum or Yum) is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in the Wum Central Sub-division in Menchum Division of the North West Region of Cameroon.

Phonology

Consonants

The consonants of Aghem are shown below.

		Bilabial		Labiodental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Palatal		Labial–velar		Velar		Glottal
Nasal			m				n			ɲ			ŋm		ŋ
Plosive	unasp.		b				d					kp	gb		g	ʔ
	asp.	pʰ				tʰ								kʰ
Affricate				p̪f	b̪v	ts	dz	t̠ʃ	d̠ʒ
Fricative				f	v			ʃ	ʒ						ɣ
Approximant	Median										j				w
	Lateral						l

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Near-back	Back
Close	i			u
Near-close		ɪ	ʊ
Close-mid	e			o
Open-mid	ɛ			ɔ
Open	a			ɒ

Aghem has two tones. High tone and low tone.

External links

Miscellaneous Links

• Aghem language on AFADA USA website

Entries for Aghem in inventories of languages and people groups

• Aghem language entry in Glottolog
• Aghem language entry in the Ethnologue
• OLAC (Open Language Archives) resources in and about the Aghem language

Linguistic papers on the Aghem language

• Phonological Reconstruction and the Aghem Central Vowels, by David Thormoset
• Focus Marking in Aghem: Syntax or Semantics?, by Larry M. Hyman (April 27, 2006, Revised March 12, 2007)
• Focus in Aghem, by Larry M. Hyman and Maria Polinsky