| Vagla | |
| Region: | Ghana |
| Speakers: | 14,000 |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Speakers2: | (may include speakers of Siti) |
| Familycolor: | Niger-Congo |
| Fam2: | Atlantic–Congo |
| Fam3: | Gur |
| Fam4: | Southern |
| Fam5: | Gurunsi |
| Fam6: | Western |
| Iso3: | vag |
| Glotto: | vagl1239 |
| Glottoname: | Vagla |
Vagla is a Gurunsi (Gur) language of Ghana with about 14,000 speakers. It is spoken in a number of communities around the western area of Northern Region, 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.
| voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
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| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
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| Close-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /ink/ | (pronounced as /ink/) | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
Vagla has four tones: rising, falling, and two level tones. It also has downstep. Nasals and laterals can also carry tones.
Vagla uses to represent both pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/, and it uses to represent pronounced as /link/ and pronounced as /link/.
Nasalization is represented by a following, e.g., sɛɛ and sɛɛh .