| Chakosi | |
| Nativename: | Anufo |
| Region: | Ghana, Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast |
| Ethnicity: | Chakosi people |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Ref: | e22 |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Kwa |
| Fam4: | Potou–Tano |
| Fam5: | Tano |
| Fam6: | Central Tano (Akan) |
| Fam7: | Bia |
| Fam8: | North |
| Minority: |  Benin |
| Iso3: | cko |
| Glotto: | anuf1239 |
| Glottorefname: | Anufo |
Chakosi, also known by its autonym Anufo, is a Central Tano language spoken in northeast Ghana, northern Togo, northwest Benin and Ivory Coast by approximately 180,000 people.
| +Consonants[1] | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Labial-velar | Glottal | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | round | palatal | plain | palatal | plain | palatal | plain | round | plain | palatal | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /mʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ŋmʲ/ | |||||||
| Stop | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /pʷ/ | pronounced as /pʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /tʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /cʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /kʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /kpʲ/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /bʷ/ | pronounced as /bʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /dʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɟʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɡʷ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /gbʲ/ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /fʷ/ | pronounced as /fʲ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɕᶣ/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ʑᶣ/ | ||||||||||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /rʲ/ | ||||||||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | pronounced as /ɥ̥/ | ||||||||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /lᶣ/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Nasal | |||||
| Back | Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ĩ/ | pronounced as /ũ/ | |
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Open-Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ɛ̃/ | pronounced as /ɔ̃/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /ã/ |