Vagla is a Gurunsi (Gur) language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities in the Savannah Region (part of the Northern Region before 2018), Ghana. Such communities includes: Bole, Sawla, Tuna, Soma, Gentilpe, and Nakwabi. The people who speak this language are known as Vaglas, one of the indigenous tribes around that part of the Northern Region, which were brought under the Gonja local administration system "Gonjaland" by British Colonial Rulers under their Centralised System of Governance.
Phonology Consonants +Consonants Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Labial-velar GlottalPlosive voiceless voiced Nasal Fricative voiceless voiced Approximant Vowels +Vowels Front Central Back Close Close-mid Mid Open-mid () Open Blench uses , which is described as a -ATR counterpart of ., citing . All vowels can be long or short. Two similar vowels are not treated as a long vowel due to tone patterns.
Tones Vagla has four tones: rising, falling, and two level tones. It also has downstep. Nasals and laterals can also carry tones.
Orthography Vagla uses to represent both and , and it uses to represent and .
Nasalization is represented by a following , e.g., and .
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