Puguli or Phuie (Pwĩẽ) is the language of the
Phuo people. It is spoken in
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to ...
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Writing System
Nasalization is indicated with a
tilde
The tilde () or , is a grapheme with several uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish, which in turn came from the Latin '' titulus'', meaning "title" or "superscription". Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) i ...
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ã ẽ ɛ̃
ĩ ɩ̃
õ ɔ̃
ũ ʋ̃. The tilde is not indicated in the presence of a nasal consonant or when the first nasalized vowel is indicated.
The high tone, the most frequent, is not indicated. The low tone is indicated with the grave accent:
à è ɛ̀
ì ɩ̀
ò ɔ̀
ù ʋ̀ ã̀ ẽ̀ ɛ̃̀ ĩ̀ ɩ̃̀ ɔ̃̀ õ̀ ɔ̃̀ ũ̀ ʋ̃̀ and the low high tone is indicated with an acute accent:
á é ɛ́
í ɩ́
ó ɔ́
ú ʋ́ ã́ ẽ́ ɛ̃́ ĩ́ ɩ̃́
ṍ ɔ̃́ ṹ ʋ̃́.
References
Languages of Burkina Faso
Gurunsi languages
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