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Wè Northern

A language of Côte d’Ivoire

ISO 639-3: wob

Population	156,000 (1993 SIL).
Region	Western Department, Kouibly and Fakobly subprefectures.
Language map	Côte d’Ivoire, reference number 64
Alternate names	Ouobe, Wèè, Wobé
Dialects	Tao, Péomé, Sémien (Gbéan). Kouibly dialect intelligible to about half of Wè Southern [gxx] speakers. Lexical similarity: 90%–94% among dialects, Kouibly dialect (Tao and Gbean) has 84%–89% lexical similarity with Wè Southern dialects.
Classification	Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kru, Western, Wee, Wobe
Language use	Also use French.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Grammar. NT: 1984.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	Whistle speech reported. Christian, traditional religion, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BEARTH, Thomas; HOFER, Verena, authors. 1975. "Système vocalique et sandhi vocalique en wobé."

BEARTH, Thomas; LINK, Christa, authors. 1978. "Les tons du wobé: Étude fonctionnelle."

BEARTH, Thomas; LINK, Christa, authors. 1980. "The tone puzzle of Wobé."

EGNER, Inge, author. 1979. "Prolongation du radical verbal et changement de la valence du verbe en wobé."

EGNER, Inge, author. 1983. "Contraintes sociolinguistiques portant sur le discours d’instruction en wobé."

EGNER, Inge, author. 1988. "Problemes d’interpretation fonctionnelle et d’integration hierarchique de l’échange-écho en Wobe (parler wɛɛ de Côte d’Ivoire)."

EGNER, Inge, author. 1988. Analyse conversationnelle de l’échange réparateur en wobé: Parler wɛɛ de Côte d’Ivoire.

EGNER, Inge, author. 1989. "The role of topos in the use of a Wobe particle."

EGNER, Inge, author. 1989. Précis de grammaire wobé.

EGNER, Inge, author. 1993. The role of contextual assumptions in WH-questions containing the particle ‘mɔ’ in Wɛɛ (Kru).

EGNER, Inge, author. 2003. "Applicative marking in Kru."

EGNER, Inge; HOFER, Verena, authors. 1978. "Information marquée dans la proposition wobé."

HOFER, Verena, author. 1978. "Types et séquences de propositions en wobé."  

HOFER, Verena; LINK, Christa, authors. 1981. "Contes wobé."

LINK, Christa, author. 1975. "L’interprétation de la consonne médiane dans la structure syllabique CCV en wobé."

LINK, Christa, author. 1978. "Units in Wobe discourse."  

Vernacular Publications

-A -sroʼ wɛɛ sbɛ. 1982.

-A -tu" -aa ʼkmʋʼa -tɩʼ de "kwibli se -crɔnʼ ʼble ʼbode. 1996.

ʼBlʋʼʋn Dbonʋiʼa "i-saasbɛ. 1996.

ʼBo -saeʼ baeʼ. 1977.

ʼDii-srosbɛʼɛ "i-saa -nɛ. 1982.

Kwie a pleɛ -sɔnʼ "juɔi. 1984.

Tɛin"-po 1. 1985.

Tɛin"-po 2. 1986.

Wɛɛ- nee". 1977.

Wɛɛ sbɛ 1. 1979.

Wɛɛ sbɛ 2. 1980.

Wɛɛnyʋ ke -pɔia"-tɩ ke-. 1985.

Wɛɛsbɛ ʼcɩanʼa nyʋ -je o podɛ. 1982.

Wobé. 1982.