Vagla language

Vagla is a Gurunsi language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities around the western area of Northern [Region (Ghana)|Northern Region], Ghana. Such communities includes: Bole, Sawla, Tuna, Soma, Gentilpe, and Nakwabi. The people who speak this language are known as Vaglas, one of the indigenous tribes around that part of the Northern Region, which were brought under the Gonja local administration system "Gonjaland" by British Colonial Rulers under their Centralised System of Governance.

Phonology

Vowels

Blench uses, which is described as a -ATR counterpart of.
All vowels can be long or short. Two similar vowels are not treated as a long vowel due to tone patterns.

Tones

Vagla has four tones: rising, falling, and two level tones. It also has downstep. Nasals and laterals can also carry tones.

Orthography

Vagla uses to represent both and, and it uses to represent and.
Nasalization is represented by a following, e.g., sɛɛ and sɛɛh.