There are more phonemes in Badwe'e than letters due to the fact that there are phonemes written with digraphs. There are five of these: gb, kp, ŋm, wi et wɨ. A word with gb in initial position is found before a word with ga.
This is the alphabetic order used in this dictionary:
a | b | c | d | e | ɛ | f | g | h | i | ɨ | j | k | ʼ | l | m | n | ŋ | o | œ | ɔ | p |
r | s | t | u | ʉ | v | w | y | z |