| Language name: | BETE |
| UPSID number: | 4144 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Niger-Kordofanian, Kru |
| This language has | 37 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.376760352 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t c k kp b d dj g gb b< f v s z m n nj N NW l j w i i_ u I I_ U e @ o E 3 O a gA |
| Comment: | Werle and Gbalehi analyze Bete as having four level tones. Bete has a vowel harmony system (actually based on tongue root position) in which the lowered high and lower mid vowels do not combine with fully high or higher mid vowels; /a/ is neutral to vowel harmony. |
| Source(s): | Werle, J-M. and Gbalehi, D.J. 1976. Phonologie et morphonologie du Bete de la Region de Guiberoua. Institut de Linguistique Appliquee, Universite d'Abidjan. |