Bisa

WALS coordinates: 11° 30′ N, 0° 30′ W

spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Bisa
Routledge:
    Other:
      ISO 639-3:

      Features

      Feature Value References
      Phonology
      Consonant Inventories Moderately small
      Vowel Quality Inventories Average (5-6)
      Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average
      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 No glottalized consonants
      Lateral Consonants /l/, no obstruent laterals
      Front Rounded Vowels None
      Syllable Structure Moderately complex
      Tone No tones
      Absence of Common Consonants All present
      Presence of Uncommon Consonants None
      Morphology
      Reduplication Productive full and partial reduplication
      Nominal Categories
      Comitatives and Instrumentals Differentiation