Wali language (Gur)

Wali is a Mabia or Gur language of Ghana that is spoken mainly in and nearby the town of Wa, the capital town of the Upper West Region, Ghana. In the Upper West Region, there are two predominant ethnic groups, the Mole Dagbon and the Grusi. The Wala of the Mole Dagbon and the Sissala of the Grusi are the major subgroupings in the region.
The people of Wa are believed to have migrated from The Ancient Mali to settle in today's Wa, the western part of the Upper Region of Ghana.

Orthography

Wali is written in the Latin alphabet using three orthographies: by the Ghana Institute of Languages, by the Ghana [Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation], and by the Baptist Mid-Missions. The Baptist Mid-Missions system uses the basic alphabet with the addition of the apostrophe to mark different vowel quality, and the other two systems use the special letters ε, ɩ, ɔ, ʋ, and ŋ.