Baoulé, also known as Baule or Bawule, is a language spoken in central and southern Ivory Coast, including in the regions of Lacs, Lagunes, Gôh-Djiboua, Sassandra-Marahoué, Vallée du Bandama, Woroba, and Yamoussoukro, by approximately 5.3 million people.^[1] It is a Kwa language of the Central Tano branch, forming a dialect continuum with Anyin and closely related to Nzema and Sehwi.^[2] It is the common language of the Baoulé people, the largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.^[3]

In 1946, portions of the Bible translated into Baoulé were first published; the full New Testament followed in 1953.^{[citation needed]} The complete Bible was published first in 1998, by the Bible Society in Abidjan.

Baoulé uses the following letters to indicate the following phonemes:^[4]

• Akan language
• Anyin language