Nyabwa language

Nyabwa
Native to	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(43,000 cited 1993)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Kru Western Kru Wee Nyabwa; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nwb
Glottolog	nyab1255[2]

The Nyabwa (or Nyaboa) language is a Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast. It is part of the Wee dialect continuum.

Writing System

Nyabwa alphabet
a	b	bh	c	d	e	ɛ	f	g	gb	gw	i	ɩ	j	k	kp	kw
l	m	n	ng	ny	o	ɔ	p	r	s	t	u	ʋ	v	w	y	z

Nasalisation is indicated by a tilde on the vowel. Tones are indicated by following signs: Very high tone is indicated by a double apostrophe ‹ ˮ › ; High tone is indicated by an apostrophe ‹ ʼ › ; Mid-tone is indiccated by no diacritic; Low tone is indicated by a hyphen ‹ ˗ ›.

References

↑ Nyabwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyabwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] Nyabwa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nyabwa". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.