Language/Baoule/Pronunciation/Alphabet
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Baoulé is a language spoken in central and southern Ivory Coast by less than 5 million people. It is written with a version of the Latin alphabet.
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Orthography[edit | edit source]
Letter | Pronunication |
---|---|
A a | [a] |
B b | [b] |
C c | [c] |
D d | [d] |
E e | [e] |
Ɛ ɛ | [ɛ] |
F f | [f] |
G g | [g] |
GB gb | [g͡b] |
I i | [i] |
J j | [ɟ] |
K k | [k] |
KP kp | [k͡p] |
L l | [l] |
M m | [m] |
N n | [n] |
NY ny | [ɲ] |
O o | [o] |
Ɔ ɔ | [ɔ] |
P p | [p] |
R r | [r] |
S s | [s] |
T t | [t] |
U u | [u] |
V v | [v] |
W w | [w] |
Y y | [j] |
Z z | [z] |
Nasal vowels[edit | edit source]
Letter | Pronunciation |
---|---|
an | [ã] |
ɛn | [ɛ̃] |
in | [ĩ] |
ɔn | [ɔ̃] |
un | [ũ] |
Phonology[edit | edit source]
Vowels[edit | edit source]
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
Consonants[edit | edit source]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-
velar | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | kp |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | gb | |
Fricative | voiceless | f | s | |||
voiced | v | z | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||
Lateral | l | |||||
Trill | r | |||||
Approximant | j | w |
Tones[edit | edit source]
Baoulé has five tones: high, low, mid, rising, and falling.
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