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.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
Consonants
| 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
Baoulé has five tones: high, low, mid, rising, and falling.
Orthography
Baoulé uses the following letters:
| Uppercase | A | B | C | D | E | Ɛ | F | G | GB | I | J | L | K | M | N | NY | O | Ɔ | P | S | T | U | V | W | Y | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase | a | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | g | gb | i | j | l | k | m | n | ny | o | ɔ | p | s | t | u | v | w | y | z |
| Phoneme | /a/ | /b/ | /c/ | /d/ | /e/ | /ɛ/ | /f/ | /g/ | /gb/ | /i/ | /ɟ/ | /l/ | /k/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ɲ/ | /o/ | /ɔ/ | /p/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /v/ | /w/ | /j/ | /z/ |