Language/Baoule/Pronunciation/Alphabet

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

A a	B b	C c	D d	E e	Ɛ ɛ	F f	G  g
[a]	[b]	[c]	[d]	[e]	[ɛ]	[f]	[g]
GB gb	I i	J j	K k	KP kp	L l	M m	N  n
[g͡b]	[i]	[ɟ]	[k]	[k͡p]	[l]	[m]	[n]
NY ny	O o	Ɔ ɔ	P p	R r	S s	T t	U  u
[ɲ]	[o]	[ɔ]	[p]	[r]	[s]	[t]	[u]
V v	W w	Y y	Z z
[v]	[w]	[j]	[z]

Nasal vowels

an	ɛn	in	ɔn	un
[ã]	[ɛ̃]	[ĩ]	[ɔ̃]	[ũ]