| Language name: | BOBO-FING |
| UPSID number: | 4138 |
| Alternate name(s): | SYA, BOBO |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Mande |
| This language has | 33 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.391520527 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | ph th kh kp b d g gb f h v s z m n nj N r[ l j w i e E a O o u i~ E~ a~ O~ u~ |
| Comment: | Bobo is spoken in western Burkina-Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The language has 3 level tones, which combine into four contours (HL, ML, LH, LM). |
| Source(s): | le Bris, P. and Prost, A. 1981. Dictionnaire Bobo-Fing (precedee d'une introduction grammaticale et suivi d'un lexique francais). SELAF, Paris. Morse, M.L.A. 1976. A Sketch of the Phonology and Morphology of Bobo (Upper Volta). PhD thesis, Columbia University, New York. |