| leader and in this fertile country of low population density such competition as there is between clan heads, both those who have villages and those who have not, is over people, rather than over land. Notes |
| The fieldwork upon which this paper is based was conducted between March 1975 and |
| March 1977 and sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the Coca-cola Company Ltd. |
| For the sake of economy and simplicity Tikar terms have only been very approximately |
| rendered, and tones have been omitted. Ellen Jackson (S.I.L.) who is working on the Bankim dialect of Tikar has kindly informed me that Tikar has three level tones and three glides. I should make it clear that the present transcription does violence to semantic distinctions, as will appear, in due course, when Miss Jackson publishes her material. |
| The vowel phenemes of the Ngambe dialect of Tikar are: |
| i | u |
| e | o |
| è | |
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a |
| i | u |
| e | o |
| è |  |
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a |
| [fh] and [vh] have been used to transcribe respectively voiceless and voiced bilabial fricatives. |
| References |
| Price, D. |
| 1979 | “Who are the Tikar now?”, Paideuma 25, pp. 89-98. (N.b. There is a serious |
| typographical error in Fig. 2. The unbroken line directly above the name |