Tiagba language
{{Short description|Kru language of Ivory Coast}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Tiagba
|altname = Lélé
|nativename = Ahizi
|states = Ivory Coast
|ethnicity = Aizi (Prokpo)
|speakers = 9,000
|date = 1999
|ref = e18
|familycolor = Niger-Congo
|fam2 = Atlantic–Congo
|fam3 = Kru
|iso3 = ahi
|glotto=tiag1235
|glottorefname=Tiagbamrin Aizi
}}
The Lélé language, Lélémrin, also known as Tiagba (Tiagbamrin) after its principal town, is a Kru language spoken by ethnic Aizi (Ahizi) on the shores of Ébrié Lagoon in Ivory Coast. It is not intelligible with Mobu, also spoken by Aizi at the lagoon.
The Lele endonym for all Aizi is Prokpo for the people (or in Tiagba Krokpo), Prokpamrin for the language.Douglas Boone, Silué Lamine, MaryAnne Augustin. "L'Utilisation du Français et de l'Adoukrou par les Aizi" (2002, Société Internationale de Linguistique, Côte d’Ivoire) [http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/SILESR2002-047.pdf online]{{cite web|url=https://main.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org/index.php/downloads |title=Journal of West African Languages |website=Erihplus. }}
Phonology
= Consonants =
The consonant phonemes are located in the chart below.{{Cite web |title=Phoible |url=https://phoible.org/inventories/view/1528}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
! colspan="2" | ! colspan="2" |Bilabial ! colspan="2" |Labiodental ! colspan="2" |Alveolar ! colspan="2" |Post- ! colspan="2" |Palatal ! colspan="2" |Labial–velar ! colspan="2" |Velar |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
| style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" |m | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" |n | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" |ɲ | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" |ŋ |
|---|
| colspan="2" |Plosive
| style="border-right: 0;" |p | style="border-left: 0;" |b | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" |t | style="border-left: 0;" |d | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" | |c |ɟ |k͡p |ɡ͡b | style="border-right: 0;" |k | style="border-left: 0;" |g |
| colspan="2" |Implosive
| |ɓ | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
| colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" |f | style="border-left: 0;" |v | style="border-right: 0;" |s | style="border-left: 0;" |z | style="border-right: 0;" |ʃ | style="border-left: 0;" |ʒ | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" | |
| rowspan="2" |Approximant
| colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" |j | colspan="2" |w | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" | |
| Lateral
| colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | style="border-right: 0;" | | style="border-left: 0;" |l | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | | colspan="2" | |