Ligbi kasa

The Ligbi (or Ligby) nkorɔfo ka Mande kasa wɔ Ghana, a ɔwɔ etsifi-atɔe nkyɛnmu wɔ Bono-Ahafo Mantɔw mu. Ligbi nkorɔfo a wɔka yɛ bɛyɛ 10,000 (1988 GILLBT/SIL). Ɔnye Jula, Vai ma Kono reyɛ ayɛ pɛr. Nyimpakuw kakra a wɔka Ligbi bɛyɛ 4,000 abɔtɔ gua dɛ wɔtse Ivory Coast (Vanderaa 1991). Ligbi wɔsan nyim no dɛ Wala (Hwela) anaa Numu. Iyi n'ase no kyerɛ Ligbi nkorɔfo bi nom; Numu yɛ Dyula dze ma obi a ɔpae abo.

Ligbi kasa no wɔ Nafaanra atɔe nkwaado, Senufo kasa ma Nafana nkorɔfo. Ligbi nkorɔfo no fir Begho (Bighu) sɔnmu, nkran adzetɔn kurow a ɔwɔ Tain nsutsen a ɔwɔ Ghana, wɔ awo ntoatoado 17 ansaana Nafana rebɛba. Ligbi wɔ anomu esuon na hwembɔ esuon ndze ngyegyee. Ɔyɛ ndze kasa a ɔwɔ ndze ebien, dza ɔwɔ sor na dza ɔwɔ famu.

Fɔnɔlɔgyi

Nkonsonantse

Nkonsonantse

		Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Labial- velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t̪	tʃ	k	kp
	voiced	b	d̪	dʒ	g	gb
Nasal		m	n̪	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative	voiceless	f	s				(h)
	voiced	(v)	(z)
Approximant			l	j		w

• /d/ is [r] between vowels.
• /k/ and /g/ are [ɣ] between vowels.
• /d/, /g/, and /l/ are nasalized between nasal vowels.
• /h/ occurs in English and Arabic loanwords.
• /v/ and /z/ only occur in ideophones.

Mbawor

Anomu Mbawor

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Hwembɔ Mbawor

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ĩ		ũ
Close-mid	ẽ		õ
Open-mid	ɛ̃		ɔ̃
Open		a

Ndze

Ligbi wɔ ndze ahorow ebien, sor na famu.