Godié language

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Godié
RegionIvory Coast
Native speakers
(26,000 cited 1993)[1]
Latin alphabet
Bété syllabary
Language codes
ISO 639-3god
Glottologgodi1239

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.

Writing[edit]

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]

Godié letters
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[edit]

  1. ^ Godié at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Sassongo, Silué (2002). The Orthographic Conventions for Ivorian Languages. Cape Town. pp. 117–132. ISBN 1919799664.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Egner, Inge (2015). Discourse Features of Godié Narrative. SIL International. p. 112. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

Linguistic literature[edit]

  • 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.