Language/Southern-dagaare/Pronunciation/Alphabet-and-Pronunciation

Southern Dagaare is spoken by about 700,000 people in Ghana in the northwest corner and in the Upper West Region. It is also known as Dagaare, Dagara, Dagari, Dagati, Degati or Dogaari.

In today's lesson you will learn how to write and pronounce the letters of the alphabet.

Phonology

Here are the consonant and vowel sounds in the Dagaare languages:

Vowels

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

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Labio- velar	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ɕ	k͡p	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʑ	ɡ͡b	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s				h
	voiced	v	z
	implosive						ʼh
Nasal	plain	m	n	ɲ	ŋ͡m	ŋ
	implosive	ʼm
Lateral	plain		l
	implosive		ʼl
Approximant				j	w

Writing system

Uppercase

A

B

D

E

Ɛ

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

Ɔ

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Lowercase

a

b

d

e

ɛ

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

ɔ

p

r

s

t

u

v

w

y

z