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B with a left hook, a letter unique to the General Alphabet. It is now apparently replaced by br . [1] The General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages is an orthographic system created in the late 1970s for all Cameroonian languages. [2] [3] Consonant and vowel letters are not to contain diacritics, though ẅ is a temporary exception.
The General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages was developed in the late 1970s as an orthographic system for all Cameroonian languages. In the late 19th century, the Bamum script was developed by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya to write the Bamum (Shüpamom) language .
Ngiembɔɔn is a tonal language, and uses the high tone /˦/, the low tone /˨/, the falling tone /˥˩/, and the rising tone /˩˥/. [3] Anderson suggests a fifth tone/˨˩/, [1] low falling. These are marked (using <a> as an example) as <á a â ǎ ȁ>. It is marked on the first letter of long vowels and diphthongs.
Limbum is a Grassfields language of Cameroon, with a small number of speakers in Nigeria. It is used as a trade language by some, but is primarily the mother tongue of the Wimbum people, who live in Donga-Mantung division of the Northwest Region , at the top of the Ring Road.
Bamum (Shü Pamom [ʃŷpǎˑmə̀m] ' language of the Bamum ', or Shümom ' Mum language '), also known as Shupamem, Bamun, or Bamoun, is an Eastern Grassfields language of Cameroon, with approximately 420,000 speakers. [1] The language is well known for its original script developed by King Njoya and his palace circle in the Kingdom of Bamum ...
The Awing alphabet was proposed by translation consultants for SIL International and the Cameroon Association For Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL) in 2005. It was since then used for publishing Bible translations, Awing folk stories, and other materials. The Awing alphabet is based on an adapted Latin script.
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon). They are notable for evolving from a pictographic system to a semi-syllabary in the space of fourteen years, from 1896 to 1910. Bamum type was cast in 1918, but the script fell into disuse around 1931.
The Yemba alphabet is a subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet. A machine backwards transformation of the dictionary was performed by independent scientists who created the French translation of Yemba words. The resulting dictionary was extended with French synonyms from the French version of the WordNet database. Furthermore, over 6,000 ...