Bassari
Résumé
This paper is a concise overview of Bassari, an Atlantic language spoken in the borderland between Senegal and Guinea.
Section 1: presentation of the sociolinguistic status of Bassari,
Section 2: main phonological and tonological characteristics, as well as the syllabic structure,
Section 3: the different parts of speech (and the derivational processes),
Section 4: the noun phrase and the noun class system,
Section 5: the verbal system
Section 6: main features of the syntax of simple clauses.