Godié language
The Godié language is a Kru language spoken by the Godié people in the south-west and central-west of Ivory Coast. It is one of the dialects of the Bété language, In 1993, the language had 26,400 native speakers
| Godié | |
|---|---|
| Region | Ivory Coast |
Native speakers | (26,000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | god |
| Glottolog | godi1239 |
Writing
Godié spelling is based on the rules of The 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
References
- Godié at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Sassongo, Silué (2002). The Orthographic Conventions for Ivorian Languages. Cape Town. pp. 117–132. ISBN 1919799664.
- Egner, Inge (2015). Discourse Features of Godié Narrative. SIL International. p. 112. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
Linguistic literature
- Marchese, Lynell. "On the role of conditionals in Godie procedural discourse." Coherence and Grounding in Discourse (1987): 263-280.
- Marchese, Lynell. "Subordinate clauses as topics in Godie." Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 7 (1977): 157-164.
- Marchese, Lynell. "Tense innovation in the Kru language family." Studies in African linguistics 15, no. 2 (1984): 189ff.
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