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