ʉ̂ Recent developments in digital literacy have had an impact on Medumba. For example, a seven-language electronic calendar — in French, English, and the five national languages (Medumba, Ghomala, Yemba, Meta, Kom) — sends information on time and date to an LCD screen via a VGA controller. The calendar has been developed as a way of mitigating the impact of language competition, and with the specific goal of raising the profile and prestige of the national languages in a context of language endangerment. Medumba radio station Radio FM 100 Medumba was established in 2000 by Medumba Kum Ntsi. Phonology Vowels According to , Medumba has 10 phonemic simple vowels given in the following inventory: Additionally medumba has five phonemic diphthongs: , , , , Consonants The following table gives the simple phonemic consonants in Medumba according to . Consonants place in parenthesis are phonemic but extremely rare. Only nasals, /b/, /d/, /g/, and /ʙ/ appear in both onset and coda positions. In addition to simple consonants Medumba has a large number of consonants with secondary articulation. Complex consonants only occur in onset position. The inventory of complex consonants according to is: Morphology Affixation Medumba has several affixes including: the suffix -te, which attaches to verbs to derive the counterpart iterative form ('to verb regularly or repetitively'). While many -te forms have a counterpart base to which the may or may not transparently related (1-10), many of them seem to be frozen forms, for which the underived no longer exists (11-22). homorganic nasal prefixal N-, which is found in two contexts: it attaches to verbs to derive nouns it attaches to verbs to derive non-initial verbs (e.g. after an auxiliary or the non-initial verb of serial verb construction) suffixal H-tone prefixal H-tone Tonal inflection Nominal tone classes: LL, HH, HL, LH Tone on Nouns: {LL, HH, HL, LH}: Voorhoeve introduced a non-segment tone in order to distinguish two different low tone noun groups and two different high tone noun groups. For instance, naʔ and mfən both bear a segment low tone, but their tonal realization is different in the context such as mə jən mfən ___. For instance, naʔ in mə jən mfən naʔ (I saw the child of the cow) bears a non-low tone, whereas mfen in mə jən mfən mfən (I saw the child of the chief) bears a low tone. He proposed a four-way distinction, L(L), L(H), H(L),