Propositions pour l’orthographe du bamanankan

Abstract

The authors advance solutions to certain problems of the Bamanankan which had remained hitherto unresolved, such as spelling of the syllables of the type “nasal consonant + vowel i or u”. They suggest to distinguish phonemes gw and sh. Full lists of auxiliary morphemes and words of Bamanankan are provided. Tone notation rules are presented. Questions of solid or separated writing for various types of syntactic constructions are discussed.

Keywords

• Bambara Language
• Mande Languages
• Orthography
• Tonal Notation