Bété
WALS coordinates: 6° 15′ N, 6° 15′ W
spoken in Côte d'Ivoire
Alternative Names
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Features
| ID | Feature | Value | Area | References | |
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| 1A | Consonant Inventories | Average | Phonology | comment | |
| 2A | Vowel Quality Inventories | Large (7-14) | Phonology | comment | |
| 3A | Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Low | Phonology | comment | |
| 4A | Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | In both plosives and fricatives | Phonology | comment | |
| 5A | Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | None missing in /p t k b d g/ | Phonology | comment | |
| 6A | Uvular Consonants | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 7A | Glottalized Consonants | Implosives only | Phonology | comment | |
| 8A | Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | Phonology | comment | |
| 11A | Front Rounded Vowels | None | Phonology | comment | |
| 12A | Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | Phonology | comment | |
| 13A | Tone | Complex tone system | Phonology | comment | |
| 18A | Absence of Common Consonants | All present | Phonology | comment | |
| 19A | Presence of Uncommon Consonants | Labial-velars | Phonology | comment | |
| 62A | Action Nominal Constructions | Restricted | Nominal Syntax | comment | |
| 75A | Epistemic Possibility | Verbal constructions | Verbal Categories | comment | |
| 132A | Number of Non-Derived Basic Colour Categories | 3 | Lexicon | comment | |
| 133A | Number of Basic Colour Categories | 3-4 | Lexicon | comment | |
| 134A | Green and Blue | Black/green/blue | Lexicon | comment | |
| 135A | Red and Yellow | Red/yellow | Lexicon | comment |
