Tagwana language

Tagwana
Tagbana
Native to	Ivory Coast
Region	Central Department
Native speakers	(140,000 cited 1993) [1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Senufo Tagwana–Djimini Tagwana
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgw
Glottolog	tagw1240

Tagwana (Tagbana) is a southern Senufo language of Ivory Coast. It is closely related to Djimini.

Phonology

Consonants ^[2]

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labio- velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k	k͡p	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ	ɡ͡b
Fricative		f	s				h
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant				j		w

Vowels ^[2]

Oral vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
High-mid	e		o
Low-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Low		a

Nasal vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	ĩ		ũ
Low-mid	ɛ̃		ɔ̃
Low		ã

References

1. Tagwana at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Traoré, Yranahan; Féry, Caroline (2018). Nominal classes and phonological agreement in Fròʔò (Tagbana). In Ryan Bennett and Andrew Angeles and Adrian Brasoveanu and Dhyana Buckley and Nick Kalivoda and Shigeto Kawahara and Grant McGuire and Jaye Padgett (eds.), Hano-Bana: A Festschrift for Junko Ito and Armin Mester: Santa Cruz: University of California. pp. 1–29.