Guinean Kpelle (also known as Guerze in French), spoken by half a million people, is concentrated primarily, but not exclusively, in the southeastern forest regions of Guinea bordering Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone.
Words with high, high-low, and low tone patterns are stress-initial.
[5] Inalienable nouns are called dependent, and include integral parts of the possessor that cannot be discarded.
Most Kpelle nouns have one form to represent both singular and plural, with number usually indicated by context.
(e.g. mii 'to eat' + sále 'medicine' → mii-sále 'pill') The order in a noun phrase goes, from earliest to latest: There are two classes of adjectives in Kpelle, predicating and descriptive.
Examples include táma 'to be plentiful' → támaa 'much, a lot' and kpɔlu 'ripen' → kpɔluɔ 'ripe'.
These phrases follow the pattern object + adjective stem + suffix vowel + ì.
It can also be used as a noun phrase as the subject to express the location itself, and can be described with predicating clauses.