Talk:Supyire language

/w/?

Is /w/ a velar [ɰ] or a labio-velar [w]? Mo-Al (talk) 22:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

"see Table 4"?

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Poorly written article, inappropriate subjects and language

The first paragraph of this article is baffling and disjointed; it seems to be making a general point about languages and how they develop in isolation as versus in situations of conflict, etc., but makes little specific reference to the history of Supyire. At times it reads like a poor translation, or like colonial discourse.

The last paragraphs of the first section refer to the Supyire people more than the language, content that belongs in a separate article about the ethnic group. "As a group, the Senufo people are considered to be one of the oldest ethnic groups of the Ivory Coast, having settled there in the early 17th century" is a strange statement to make about a region that has been inhabited by multiple groups and empires over many centuries. The following sentence -- "It is hypothesized that the Senufo descended from the Kenedugu people, who ruled over Mali and Burkina Faso during the 17th century" -- makes you wonder just who it was that was there in the 17th century.

Colonial-style eruptions like "Although the Supyire have risen above the level of hunter-gatherer, their traditional mode of organization has not risen above the village level" are really jarring in Wikipedia, and in 2019, with their implied value judgments valorizing urbanization and industrialization. Introducing the term "bushmen" even in quotation marks, with no attribution to some source that would explain it, seems a stunning intrusion from other discourses.

Finally a sentence like "The Senufo practice of female circumcision has made this culture recognizable on a worldwide level" is laughable; it is hardly a rare practice in Africa or Asia, and no particular group is most notorious for practicing it. CSorenA (talk) 16:41, 16 November 2019 (UTC)