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Mesaka, or Ugarə, is a Tivoid language spoken in Cameroon.

Batomo may be a separate language, or it may be the same as Motomo (Oliti, Matchi), a dialect of Iceve-Maci (Ethnologue, 22nd edition).

Phonology

Vowels

Vowel length is often contrastive in sequences of two similar vowels. Sequences of dissimilar vowels are not observed unless there's a consonant in-between.

Mesaka is also a tonal language with two tones: high and low.

References

1. Mesaka at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Blench, Roger M. (November 2011). "The Tivoid languages: Classification and Comparative Word List" (PDF). Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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