Guéré (Gere), also calledWè (Wee), is aKru language spoken by over 300,000 people in theDix-Huit Montagnes andMoyen-Cavally regions ofIvory Coast.

Thephonology of Guere (here the Zagna dialect of Central Guere / Southern Wè)^[2] is briefly sketched out below.

The consonant phonemes are as follows:

Allophones of some of these phonemes include:

• [k͡m] is an allophone of/k͡p/ before nasal vowels
• [ŋ͡m] is an allophone of/ɡ͡b/ before nasal vowels
• [ŋʷ] is an allophone of/w/ before nasal vowels
• [ɗ] is an allophone of/l/ in word-initial position
• [r] is an allophone of/l/ after acoronal consonant (alveolar or palatal)

In addition, while the nasal consonants/m,n/ and contrast with/ɓ/ and/l/ before oral vowels, and are thus separate phonemes, before nasal vowels only the nasal consonants occur./ɓ/ and/l/ do not occur before nasal vowels, suggesting that historically aphonemic merger between these sounds and the nasals/m,n/ may have occurred in this position.

Like manyWest African languages, Guere makes use of a contrast betweenvowels withadvanced tongue root and those withretracted tongue root. In addition,nasal vowels contrast phonemically withoral vowels.

Guere is atonal language and contrasts tentones:

• Wobea.k.a. Northern Wè

• Wee languages
• Languages of Ivory Coast

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