Bassari

International audience This paper is a concise overview of Bassari, an Atlantic language spoken in the borderland between Senegal and Guinea.Section 1: presentation of the sociolinguistic status of Bassari,Section 2: main phonological and tonological characteristics, as well as the syllabic structure,Section 3: the different parts of speech (and the derivational processes),Section 4: the noun phrase and the noun class system,Section 5: the verbal systemSection 6: main features of the syntax of simple clauses.