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Baoulé, also known as Baule or Bawule, is a language spoken in central and southern Ivory Coast, including in the regions of Lacs, Lagunes, Gôh-Djiboua, Sassandra-Marahoué, Vallée du Bandama, Woroba, and Yamoussoukro, by approximately 4.7 million people. It is a Kwa language of the Central Tano branch, forming a dialect continuum with Anyin and closely related to Nzema and Sehwi.[2] It is the common language of the Baoulé people, the largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.[3]

Baoulé
Region	Ivory Coast
Ethnicity	Baoulé people
Native speakers	4.7 million (2017)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Potou–Tano Tano Central Tano Bia North Bia Baoulé
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bci
Glottolog	baou1238

Translations of the Bible

In 1946, portions of the Bible translated into Baoulé were first published; the full New Testament followed in 1953.^{[citation needed]} The complete Bible was published first in 1998, by the Bible Society in Abidjan.

Phonology

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

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Of these vowels, five may be nasalized: /ĩ/, /ɛ̃/, /ã/, /ũ/, and /ɔ̃/.[4][5]

Tones

Baoulé has five tones: high, low, mid, rising, and falling.[6]

Orthography

Baoulé uses the following letters to indicate the following phonemes:[4]

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/

See also

• Akan language
• Anyin language

References

Further reading

• Timyan, Judith E., "A Discourse-Based Grammar of Baule: The Kode Dialect" (1977). CUNY Academic Works.
• Carteron, Michel. 1972. Étude de la langue baoule. Baconda, Cote d'Ivoire: s.n.

External links

• Baoulé entry at the World Atlas of Language Structures
• PanAfriL10n page on Anyi & Baule
• Baoulé Phonology (French)
• Baule kasahorow

Baoulé language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator

На других языках

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[de] Baule (Sprache)

Baule oder Baoulé ist eine zu den Akan-Sprachen gehörende Sprache mit ca. 2 Millionen Sprechern in der Elfenbeinküste.[1]

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- [en] Baoulé language

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[fr] Baoulé (langue)

Le baoulé est une langue africaine de la famille des langues akan ou tano central. Il s'agit de la langue du peuple des Baoulés. Elle est principalement parlée en Côte d'Ivoire dans le centre du pays à Bouaké, Yamoussoukro, Dimbokro, Béoumi, Sakassou, Daoukro, Bouaflé, Kouassi Kouassikro, Bodokro, Bocanda, Ouelle, M'bahiakro, Toumodi, Tiébissou et de Didiévi.

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