The Southern Mande languages (called 'Southeastern Mande' in Kastenholz, who calls the superior Southeastern Mande node 'Eastern') are a branch of the Mande languages spoken across Ivory Coast and into Liberia.
3-605: Dan / ˈ d æ n / is a Southern Mande language spoken primarily in Ivory Coast (~800,000 speakers) and Liberia (150,000–200,000 speakers). There is also a population of about 800 speakers in Guinea . Dan is a tonal language , with 9 to 11 contour and register tones, depending on the dialect. Alternative names for the language include Yacouba or Yakubasa, Gio, Gyo, Gio-Dan, and Da. Dialects are Gio (Liberian Dan), Gweetaawu (Eastern Dan), Blowo (Western Dan), and Kla. Kla
6-404: Is evidently a distinct language. The orthography of Liberia includes this alphabet: Tones are marked as follows: extra high tone: a̋; high tone: á; medium tone: ā; low tone: à; extra low tone: ȁ; high drop tone: â; extra low hanging tone: aʼ. The digraphs ⟨bh, dh, gb gw, kp, kw⟩ keep the same values as in the spelling of 1982, and the nasal vowels are also indicated by appending
9-528: The letter n after the letter of the vowel ⟨an, æn, ʌn, ɛn, in, ɔn, œn, un⟩ . This article about Mande languages is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern Mande languages The following internal classification is from Dwyer (1989, 1996), as summarized in Williamson & Blench 2000. Mano Dan – Goo – Tura Guro – Yaure Mwa – Wan Gban – Beng Vydrin (2009) places Mwan with Guro-Yaure. There
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