Baoulé is a member of the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken in central and southern Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) by about 5.3 million people. In particular, it is spoken in the regions of Lacs, Lagunes, Gôh-Djiboua, Sassandra-Marahoué, Vallée du Bandama, Woroba and Yamoussoukro.
Baoulé is also known as Baule, Baule-Ando or Bawule, and Baoulé speakers call their language Wawle. It is written with the Latin alphabet using an spelling system devised by l'Institut de linguistique appliqué ivoirien (The Ivorian Applied Linguistic Institute) in 1979. The Bible was translated into Baoulé between 1946 and 1998.
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Sran mun be ngba, kε be wu be ɔ, be ngba be sε, fɔndi nun, sran-mmala nun. Be si akundanbu, be si su ɔ fata kε sran mun be tran'n, be tran aniaan nun tranlε.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Information about Baoulé | Numbers | Tower of Babel
Information about Baoulé
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoulé_language
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoulé_(langue)
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/baou1238
https://baoule.ci/category/baoule/la-langue-baoule/
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page last modified: 31.08.26
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