Attié (Akie, Akye, Atche, Atie, Atshe) is a language of uncertain classification within the
Kwa branch of the
Niger–Congo family. It is spoken by perhaps half a million people in
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...
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Phonology
Consonants
* /z/ may also be heard as an affricate
Í¡zin free variation among speakers.
* /l/ may also be heard as
when following consonants.
* Nasal sounds
, ɲ, ŋ~ŋwonly occur as a result of sounds /l, j, w/ occurring in nasal positions when preceding or following nasal vowels.
* /h/ in nasal positions occurs as
̃
* /w/ may be realized as labio-palatal
¥when occurring after palatal sounds /t͡ʃ, dÍ¡Ê’, ÉŸ/.
Vowels
Sounds /ɨ, ə/ are phonetically heard as
¨Ìž, ɘor
™Ìž, Éœ
Writing system
A vowel followed by
indicates nasalisation
In phonetics, nasalization (or nasalisation in British English) is the production of a sound while the velum is lowered, so that some air escapes through the nose during the production of the sound by the mouth. An archetypal nasal sound is .
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Tones are indicated with a diacritic before or after the syllable :
References
Works cited
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Languages of Ivory Coast
Lagoon languages
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