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Toura

A language of Côte d’Ivoire

ISO 639-3: neb

Population	38,500 (1993 SIL).
Region	East Biankouma Department, mountainous region east of Man to Touba main road, north of Man to Seguela main road, north of Bafing River; Bafing and Sassandra rivers from north and east borders.
Language map	Côte d’Ivoire, reference number 61
Alternate names	Tura, Ween
Dialects	Naò, Boo, Yiligele, Gwéò, Wáádú, Guse. Probably most similar to Dan [daf]. Also similar to Guro [goa], Gagu [ggu], Mann [mev] (in Liberia).
Classification	Niger-Congo, Mande, Eastern, Southeastern, Guro-Tura, Tura-Dan-Mano, Tura-Dan
Language use	Also use Dan, We Northern [wob], Jula [dyu], or French.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5%–15%. NT: 1986.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Traditional religion.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BEARTH, Ilse, author. 1978. "Discourse patterns in Toura folk tales."  

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1968. "Étude instrumentale des tons du toura (Côte d’Ivoire)."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1969. "Phrase et discours en Toura."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1971. L’énoncé Toura (Côte d’Ivoire).  

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1978. "Semantics and syntax -- empirical evidence for establishing three base components."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1979. Should we tell the solution together with the riddle?.

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1980. "Is there a universal correlation between pitch and information value?."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1982. "Diversité fonctionnelle dans la phrase Toura."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1986. "Focalisation et antifocus."

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1986. L’articulation du temps et de l’aspect dans le discours toura.

BEARTH, Thomas, author. 1987. "La logique des focalisations - le cas du Toura."

MILES, Christine, author. 1990. Review of: L’articulation du temps et de l’aspect dans le discours toura, by Thomas Bearth.

Vernacular Publications

Dainwoupebo 1. 1974.

Ween-meebo kaan pianbo. 1972.

Wɛɛn-mɛ̀ɛ̀bòà wún zìzììbò-sɛ̀ìkwɛ́ (A kpulu fɔ́ɔ́lé). 1999.

Wɛɛn-wʋʋ kalang kɛ̀ɛ̀ àbhà-sɛ̀ìkwɛ́ dɛ́ɛ. 1990.

Zìn bayua gon zaá-kǫǫ. 1972.