The Godié language is a
Kru language
The Kru languages are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the west of Ivory Coast.
Classification
According to Güldemann (2018), Kru lacks sufficient lexical resemblances and noun class resemblances to conclude a relation ...
spoken by the
Godié people in the south-west and central-west of
Ivory Coast
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. It is one of the dialects of the
Bété language, In 1993, the language had 26,400 native speakers.
Writing
Godié spelling is based on the rules of
The Orthographic Conventions for Ivorian Languages created by the ''Institut de linguistique appliquée'' (ILA) of the
Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
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. This convention has had revisions.
The tone is indicated with an apostrophe for the high tone and the minus sign for the low tone before the syllable.
References
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 linguistics'' 15, no. 2 (1984): 189ff.
Bété languages
Languages of Ivory Coast
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