Guéré (Gere), also called Wè (Wee), is a Kru language spoken by over 300,000 people in the Dix-Huit Montagnes and Moyen-Cavally regions of Ivory Coast.
The consonant phonemes are as follows: Allophones of some of these phonemes include: In addition, while the nasal consonants /m, n/ and contrast with /ɓ/ and /l/ before oral vowels, and are thus separate phonemes, before nasal vowels only the nasal consonants occur.
/ɓ/ and /l/ do not occur before nasal vowels, suggesting that historically a phonemic merger between these sounds and the nasals /m, n/ may have occurred in this position.
Like many West African languages, Guere makes use of a contrast between vowels with advanced tongue root and those with retracted tongue root.
Guere is a tonal language and contrasts ten tones: