Vagla language

Gur language spoken in Ghana From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vagla is a Gurunsi (Gur) language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities around the western area of Northern Region, Ghana. Such communities includes: Bole, Sawla, Tuna, Soma, Gentilpe, and Nakwabi. The people who speak this language are known as Vaglas, one of the indigenous tribes around that part of the Northern Region, which were brought under the Gonja local administration system "Gonjaland" by British Colonial Rulers under their Centralised System of Governance.

RegionGhana
Native speakers
14,000 (2003)[1]
(may include speakers of Siti)
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Vagla
RegionGhana
Native speakers
14,000 (2003)[1]
(may include speakers of Siti)
Language codes
ISO 639-3vag
Glottologvagl1239  Vagla
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Phonology

Consonants

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Vowels

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  • Blench uses /ʌ/, which is described as a -ATR counterpart of /a/.[3]
  • All vowels can be long or short. Two similar vowels are not treated as a long vowel due to tone patterns.[4]

Tones

Vagla has four tones: rising, falling, and two level tones. It also has downstep. Nasals and laterals can also carry tones.[4]

Orthography

Vagla uses i to represent both /i/ and /ɪ/, and it uses u to represent /u/ and /ʊ/.[4]

Nasalization is represented by a following h, e.g., sɛɛ 'to agree' and sɛɛh 'to carve'.[4]

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