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Anyi and Baule are closely related dialects in the Akan branch of Kwa. (Webbook)
Ethnologue Classification of Anyi and of Baule: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Kwa, Nyo, Potou-Tano, Tano, Central, Bia, Northern.
(NB- The Akan languages of Twi and Fante are treated in an article under that name.)
They are spoken in southern Côte d'Ivoire and Anyi also in southwestern Ghana. (Webbook, Ethnologue)
Baule: 2,130,000 (1993 SIL). (Ethnologue)
Anyi: 610,000 in Côte d'Ivoire (1993 SIL). 250,000 in Ghana (2003). 10,000 to 100,000 second-language users. (Ethnologue)
Dialect survey work for Baule is going on at the University of Côte d'Ivoire.
SIL's Ethnologue lists the following for Anyi dialects in Côte d'Ivoire (and Ghana):
For Baule, Ethnologue says: "Close to Anyin. Many subgroups, but all claim to understand the standard variety."
Anyi and Baule are local languages. (Webbook)
Literacy rate among Anyi in Cote d'Ivoire (according to Ethnologue):
Literacy rate among Baule (according to Ethnologue):
Anyi and Baule in Côte d'Ivoire use the official Latin-based orthography developed for all languages in that country; Ghanaian orthography varies. (Webbook) Anyi and Baule are written with extended characters. [Need information on diacritics.]
Baule alphabet as reported by Hartell (1993) and presented in Systèmes alphabétiques: http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/AfficheTableauOrtho2N.php?choixLangue=baoul%C3%A9
Sample texts on the "Language Museum" site:
Most Unicode fonts with extended Latin characters would suffice.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Baule: http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/bci.htm
None known of.
Anyi/Agni:
Baule/Baoulé:
Latin & diacritic character picker http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/latin/
Need more info on the closeness/interintelligibility of these two. Also Anyin Morofo/Sanvi.
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html (page on "Anyi/Baule" http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Anyi_Baule-root.html )
Chanard, Christian (2006), Systèmes alphabétiques des langues africaines, LLACAN, CNRS, http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/
Hartell, Rhonda L., ed. (1993), The Alphabets of Africa. Dakar: UNESCO and SIL. (The French edition, published the same year, is entitled Alphabets de Langues Africaines).
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Anyin," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=any
______, "Baoulé," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bci
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Anyin language," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyin_language
______, "Baoulé language," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoul%C3%A9_language
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