Alladian language

Alladian
Native to	Ivory Coast
Native speakers	(23,000 cited 1993) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Kwa Avikam–Alladian Alladian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ald
Glottolog	alla1248

Alladian (Alladyan, Allagia, Allagian) is one of the Lagoon languages of Ivory Coast. It is a Kwa language, closely related to Avikam, but otherwise its position is unclear.

Phonology

Consonants

The consonants of the Alladian language are shown in the chart below. ^{[2] [3]}

		Bilabial		Labiodental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Labial–palatal	Palatal		Labial–velar		Velar
Nasal			m				n				ɲ
Plosive		p	b			t	d				c	ɟ	k͡p	ɡ͡b	k	g
Affricate
Fricative				f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ
Approximant	Central									ɥ		j	w
	Lateral						l

The consonant sound /l/ has two allophones; /r/ and /ɾ/.

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Back
Close	i		u
Near-close		ɪ
Close-mid	e, ẽ		o, õ
Open-mid	ɛ, ɛ̃		ɔ, ɔ̃
Open	a, ã

Tones

There are two tones. High tone and low tone.

References

1. Alladian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "Phoible".
3. "Phoible".