Tiagba language
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| Tiagba | |
|---|---|
| Lélé | |
| Ahizi | |
| Native to | Ivory Coast |
| Ethnicity | Aizi (Prokpo) |
Native speakers | (9,000 cited 1999)[1] |
Niger–Congo?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ahi |
| Glottolog | tiag1235 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
The Lélé language, Lélémrin, also known as Tiagba (Tiagbamrin) after its principal town, is a Kru language spoken by ethnic Aizi (Ahizi) on the shores of Ébrié Lagoon in Ivory Coast. It is not intelligible with Mobu, also spoken by Aizi at the lagoon.
The Lele endonym for all Aizi is Prokpo for the people (or in Tiagba Krokpo), Prokpamrin for the language.[2][3]
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Consonants
[edit | edit source]The consonant phonemes are located in the chart below.[4]
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Post- | Palatal | Labial–velar | Velar | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | c | ɟ | k͡p | ɡ͡b | k | g | |||||
| Implosive | ɓ | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | |||||||||
| Approximant | Median | j | w | ||||||||||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||||||||||
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| Front | Near-front | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | |||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʊ | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Open | a |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Tiagba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Douglas Boone, Silué Lamine, MaryAnne Augustin. "L'Utilisation du Français et de l'Adoukrou par les Aizi" (2002, Société Internationale de Linguistique, Côte d’Ivoire) online
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