Godié language
Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast
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The Godié language is a Kru language spoken by the Godié people in the southwest and central-west of Ivory Coast. It is one of the varieties of the Bété group. In 1993, the language had 26,400 native speakers.
RegionIvory Coast
Native speakers
(26,000 cited 1993)[1]| Godié | |
|---|---|
| Region | Ivory Coast |
Native speakers | (26,000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Latin alphabet Bété syllabary | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | god |
| Glottolog | godi1239 |
Writing
Godié spelling is based on the rules of the Orthographe pratique des langues ivoiriennes (Orthographic Conventions for Ivorian Languages) created by the Institut de linguistique appliquée (ILA) of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[2] This convention has had revisions.[3]
| a | ä | b | c | d | e | ë | f | g | gh | gw | i | ï | ɩ | j | k | kw | l |
| m | n | ny | nw | ŋ | o | ö | ɔ | p | s | t | u | ü | ʋ | w | y | z |
The tone is indicated with an apostrophe for the high tone and the minus sign for the low tone before the syllable.
