Godié language

Godié
Region	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(26,000 cited 1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kru Eastern Bété Godié
Writing system	Latin Alpha bet Bété syllabary
Language codes
ISO 639-3	god
Glottolog	godi1239

TheGodié languageis aKru languagespoken by theGodié peoplein the southwest and central-west ofIvory Coast.It is one of the varieties of theBété group.In 1993, the language had 26,400 native speakers.

Writing

Godié spelling is based on the rules of theOrthographe pratique des langues ivoiriennes(Orthographic Conventions for Ivorian Languages) created by theInstitut de linguistique appliquée(ILA) of theUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny.This convention has had revisions.

Godié letters

a

ä

b

c

d

e

ë

f

g

gh

gw

i

ï

ɩ

j

k

kw

l

m

n

ny

nw

ŋ

o

ö

ɔ

p

s

t

u

ü

ʋ

w

y

z

The tone is indicated with an apostrophe for the high tone and the minus sign for the low tone before the syllable.

Linguistic literature

• Marchese, Lynell. "On the role of conditionals in Godie procedural discourse."Coherence and Grounding in Discourse(1987): 263-280.
• Marchese, Lynell. "Subordinate clauses as topics in Godie."Studies in African Linguistics,Supplement 7 (1977): 157-164.
• Marchese, Lynell. "Tense innovation in the Kru language family."Studies in African linguistics15, no. 2 (1984): 189ff.