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Afriki.....From Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire?

Baule......Baules are very small......While back, I heard it's one of many old African languages that will have very few people who speak/know it. How good are you at it?

Cote d'ivoire. Many people speak it, or know how to, in Cote d'ivoire, the parts that i've been in, mostly villages. I spoke it when I was younger (it was my first language until about 3 years old) so I never got a well enough grasp of it to be fluent, however I never really had problems understanding it, but whenever I go back to see my family it takes a few weeks to become reaquainted with it.

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My mistake, I thought I heard something about Baule being one ofmanylanguages in Africa that will be lost inthe next century.

came back to add...
I just did some pratice, I haven't spoken it in years, and i'm surprised at how much I do actually remember. Another thing I noticed is that the language structure is not that different from common modern day languages such as English and French, and Spanish. It follows common tenses...

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Practice, practice, practic is what we all should be doing. In the state I live there are many African Communities(Most from Eastern andWestern Africa)who have children who will never know an African language, because their parents lost the language or don't speak tothem at home. How sad!

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Eat
n dit= i'm eating
n dit-ly= I ate
n dit-vyeh= I want to eat
n dit munh=I'm not eating
n su dit=I'm about to eat

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Is the "n" silent?Like can I say "su dit-I'm about to eat"?Am I right to say, it's a Bantu Language?Yes,

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indeed it has very modern structure and looks great.

Go
n coh=I'm going
n coh-vyeh= I want to go
n coh munh=i'm not going
n su coh=i'm about to go

also, there are a few words that are similar to english words, most likely purely by coincidence..

beh=they
mi=me
yo=you
seh=say

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Yeah, these sound like english words.