Lobi language

Lobi
Lobi
Lobiri
Region	Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast; immigrants in Ghana
Ethnicity	Lobi
Native speakers	(440,000 cited 1991–1993)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Savannas Gur Southern Gur Lobi–Dyan Lobi; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Moru;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lob
Glottolog	lobi1245
	Majority areas of northern Lobi dialects, in light yellow, on a map of Burkina Faso.

Lobi (also Miwa and Lobiri) is a Gur language of Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Phonology

Consonants^[2]
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d	c ɟ	k g	kp gb	ʔ
Aspirated	pʰ	tʰ		kʰ
Fricative	f v	s				h
Nasal	m	n	ɲ		ŋm
Approximant		r, l	j		w
Glottalized	ˀb	ˀl	ˀj		ˀw

Additionally, Lobi distinguishes between high tone and low tone. Falling and rising tones can be found on long vowels.^[2]

^ Lobi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b ^c Maïmouna Le Men, Fané (2007). Parlons Lobiri (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan.

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