Godié language
The Godié language is a Kru language spoken by the Godié people in the southwest and central-west of Ivory Coast. It is one of the varieties of the Bété group. In 1993, the language had 26,400 native speakers.
Writing
Godié spelling is based on the rules of the Orthographe pratique des langues ivoiriennes created by the Institut de linguistique appliquée of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny. This convention has had revisions.| 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 : 263-280.
- Marchese, Lynell. "Subordinate clauses as topics in Godie." Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 7 : 157-164.
- Marchese, Lynell. "Tense innovation in the Kru language family." Studies in African linguistics 15, no. 2 : 189ff.