2
NUMBER OF SPEAKERS
Grimes (1996), cites figures of 810,000 speakers of Anyi and
2,130,000 speakers of Baule. Burmeister (personal communication, 1983) estimates
about 500,000 speakers of Anyi; Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) cite 450,000; Derive
(1978) notes 1.01 million speakers of Baule and 264,000 speakers of Anyi in
Côte d'Ivoire.
3
DIALECT SITUATION
Anyi and Baule are local languages.
4
USAGE
Dialect survey work for Baule is going on at the University of
Côte d'Ivoire; Anyi dialect work is being carried out by the Société Internationale
de Linguistique.
5
ORTHOGRAPHIC STATUS
Anyi and Baule in Côte d'Ivoire use the official orthography
developed for all languages in that country; Ghanaian orthography varies.
6
SETS OF LEARNING MATERIALS
For various linguistic and sociolinguistic reasons, it
is suggested that two sets of learning materials be developed.
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