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Kwa language spoken in Ivory Coast
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Attié
Native toIvory Coast
EthnicityAttie people
Native speakers642,000 (2017)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
Language codes
ISO 639-3ati
Glottologatti1239

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.

Writing system

Attié Alphabet
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 :

Tone notation
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

References

  1. Attié at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. Hood, Kouachi & Lojenga 1984, p. 5-6.
  3. Hood, Kouachi & Lojenga 1984, p. 6.

Works cited

  • Hood, Elizabeth; Kouachi, Acho Jacob; Lojenga, Constance Kutsch (1984). Attié, dialecte naindin. Abidjan: Les Nouvelles éditions africaines. ISBN 978-2-7236-0680-6.
Languages of Ivory Coast
Official language
Indigenous
languages
Kru
Kwa
Mande
Senufo
Gur
Other
Immigrant languages
Kwa languages
Potou–Tano
Central Tano
Guang
Others
Ghana–Togo
Na-Togo
Ka-Togo
Ga–Dangme
Lagoon


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