Tagwana language
| Tagwana | |
|---|---|
| Tagbana | |
| Native to | Ivory Coast |
| Region | Central Department |
Native speakers | (140,000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgw |
| Glottolog | tagw1240 |
Tagwana (Tagbana) is a southern Senufo language of Ivory Coast. It is closely related to Djimini.
Phonology
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labio- velar |
Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | k͡p | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ɡ͡b | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| High-mid | e | o | |
| Low-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Low | a |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | ĩ | ũ | |
| Low-mid | ɛ̃ | ɔ̃ | |
| Low | ã |
References
[edit]- ^ Tagwana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Traoré, Yranahan; Féry, Caroline (2018). Nominal classes and phonological agreement in Fròʔò (Tagbana). In Ryan Bennett and Andrew Angeles and Adrian Brasoveanu and Dhyana Buckley and Nick Kalivoda and Shigeto Kawahara and Grant McGuire and Jaye Padgett (eds.), Hano-Bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester: Santa Cruz: University of California. pp. 1–29.
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