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Wobé
Northern Wèè
Native to	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(160,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kru Western Kru Wee Wobé
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`wob`
Glottolog	`weno1238`

Wobé (Ouobe) is a Kru language spoken in Ivory Coast. It is one of several languages in a dialect continuum called Wèè (Wɛɛ).

Tone

Wobé is known for claims that it has the largest number of tones (fourteen) of any language in the world (Bearth & Link). However, this has not been confirmed by other researchers, many of whom believe that some of these will turn out to be sequences of tones or prosodic effects (Singler 1984, Newman 1986), though the Wèè languages in general do have extraordinarily large tone systems.

The 14 tones posited by Bearth & Link (1980) are:

IPA	˥	˦	˧	˨	˧˥	˧˦	˨˥	˨˦	˨˧	˥˩	˦˩	˧˩	˨˩	˨˧˩
B&L tone numbers	1	2	3	4	31	32	41	42	43	15	25	35	45	435
Newman adjustment	0	1	2	3	20	21	30	31	32	04	14	24	34	324
Asian convention	5	4	3	2	35	34	25	24	23	51	41	31	21	231

References

Wobé at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

Bearth & Link, 1980. "The Tone Puzzle of Wobe". Studies in African Linguistics, 11:2:147–207.
Paul Newman, 1986. "Contour Tones in Grebo". In Stewart et al. eds. The Phonological representation of suprasegmentals. Notes 12, 14 (pp 190–191).
John Singler, 1984. "On the underlying representation of contour tones in Wobe. Studies in African Linguistics, 15:1:59–75.

Languages of Ivory Coast

Official language

French
- Nouchi

Indigenous
languages

Kru	Aizi Bakwé Bété Dida Glio-Ubi Godié Guéré Konobo Kuya Kwadia Mobu Nyabwa Neyo Siamou Tiagba Wané Wobé
Kwa	Abé Abidji Abure Adjukru Alladian Anyin Apro Attié Avikam Baoulé Ebrié Eotile Esuma Krobu Mbato Morofo Nzema
Mande	Bambara Dan Dyula Guro Maninka Soninke
Senufo	Cebaara Djimini Kar Palaka Sénoufo Tagwana
Gur	Cerma Lobi Mooré
Other	Hausa Lomakka Bouakako Sign Language
Immigrant languages	English French Spanish Arabic German Italian Hindi Arabic Chinese Portuguese Japanese Russian

Kru languages

Eastern

Western

Grebo	Grebo Jabo Krumen Glio-Oubi
Wee	Daho-Doo Glaro-Twabo Sapo Wè Krahn Nyabwa Konobo Wobe
Others	Bassa Dewoin Gbii Klao Tajuasohn

Others

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