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Nawuri

A language of Ghana

ISO 639-3: naw

Population	14,000 (2003 GILLBT), increasing.
Region	East central, Lake Volta, mostly Oti River west bank branch.
Language map	Ghana, reference number 47
Dialects	Most inherent intelligibility with Gikyode [acd]. Highest lexical similarity 72% with the Buipe dialect of Gonja [gjn].
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Nyo, Potou-Tano, Tano, Guang, North Guang
Language use	Vigorous. All domains. All ages.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. Grammar. Bible portions: 1999.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO; postpositions; genitives before noun heads; articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question word initial; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; subject pronouns are clitics, objects (postverbal) can be treated as independent words; subject and object pronouns indicate person and number; limited noun class agreement of head nouns with modifiers; verb agreement with prefix concord marker which is usually a copy of the head noun (agreement both within noun phrase and subject-verb), but less extensive than in many Bantu languages; semiproductive causative suffix on verbs; comparison typically indicated by a serial verb or serial clause construction; CV, CVC, limited V(C); tonal. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1988. Some phonological processes in Nawuri.

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1990. "Contextual labialization in Nawuri."

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1994. "Nominal tone in Nawuri."

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1995. "An overview of the Nawuri verbal system."

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1995. "Labial opacity and roundness harmony in Nawuri."

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1995. Nawuri phonology.

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 1999. Nawuri-English word list.

CASALI, Roderic F., author. 2002. "Nawuri ATR harmony in typological perspective."

SHERWOOD, Barbara, author. 1982. A grammatical description of Nawuri.

SNIDER, Keith L., author. 1989. North Guang comparative wordlist: Chumburung, Krachi, Nawuri, Gichode, Gonja.

Vernacular Publications

Ɔwʋlɩ bɩɩlasa 1, 2. 1993.

Ɔwʋlɩ Bɩɩlasa 3. 1999.

Ɔwʋlɩ Bɩɩlasa 4. 1999.

Mɩ gɩsɩrɩkpan nde-oo! 1. 1986.

Mɩ gɩsɩrɩkpan nde-oo! 2. 1987.

Mɩ gɩsɩrɩkpan nde-oo! 3. 1988.

Nawuri alewu-sin. 1987.

Sinkaala-ana 1. 1992.