Attié language

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.

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Attié
Native to	Ivory Coast
Ethnicity	Attie people
Native speakers	642,000 (2017)^[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta–Congo Kwa Attié
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`ati`
Glottolog	`atti1239`

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	[n]	[ɲ]	[ŋ]	[ŋw]
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	k͡p
voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s	t͡ʃ
voiced		(d͡z)	d͡ʒ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s	ʃ			h
voiced	v	z
Approximant			j		w
Lateral		l
Trill		(r)

/z/ may also be heard as an affricate [d͡z] in free variation among speakers.
/l/ may also be heard as [r] when following consonants.
Nasal sounds [n, ɲ, ŋ~ŋw] only 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 [h̃].
/w/ may be realized as labio-palatal [ɥ] when occurring after palatal sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ɟ/.^[2]

Vowels

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Oral vowels
	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
High-mid	e	ɨ	o
Low-mid	ɛ	ə	ɔ
Low		a

Sounds /ɨ, ə/ are phonetically heard as [ɨ̞, ɘ] or [ə̞, ɜ].

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Nasal vowels
	Front	Central	Back
High	ĩ		ũ
Low-mid	ɛ̃	ə̃	ɔ̃
Low		ã

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Writing system

Attié Alphabet^[3]
a	an	b	c	d	dzh	e	ë	ën	ɛ
ɛn	f	g	gb	h	i	in	j	k	kp
l	m	n	o	ö	ɔ	ɔn	p	r	s
sh	t	ts	tsh	u	un	v	w	y	z

A vowel followed by <n> indicates nasalisation.

Tones are indicated with a diacritic before or after the syllable :

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Tone notation^[4]
Tone	Sign	Writing	Example	Translation
Low	hyphen before syllable	˗	˗ka	thing
Mid	nothing	∅	wu	acheke
High	apostrophe	ʼ	’mi	mouth
Very high	double apostrophe	ˮ	ˮvin	children
Falling	hyphen after syllable	˗	be˗	pestle

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Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Writing system

References

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