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Notes on Baule Phonology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

J.M. Stewart
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Baule is one of the most widely spoken languages in the French Ivory Coast; the Handbook of African Languages, Part II, gives the number of speakers as 373,000. It is, according to the Handbook classification, a member of the Anyi-Baule dialect cluster of the Akan language group. Because of its importance, and the fact that no description of it has so far appeared, it is considered worth while to bring forward the present phonological analysis even though it is only provisional; a more definitive statement must await further study in the field.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1956 , pp. 353 - 365
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1956

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page 353 note 1 Westermann, D. and Bryan, M.A., The languages of West Africa, London, 1952.Google Scholar

page 355 note 1 The homorganic nasal does.not occur before [kp]; see under (a), p. 356.

page 356 note 1 For other realizations of y, see p. 357 and p. 358.

page 364 note 1 ‘Some notes on the phonology of the Nzema and Ahanta dialects’, BSOAS, XVII, 1, 1955, 160–5.Google Scholar

page 364 note 2 [h], as has been seen, does not occur in Baule.

page 364 note 3 Berry uses the symbol nl.