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The Western Pwo alphabet (Pwo Western Karen: ၦဖျိၩ့ၡိအလံၬခၪ့ထံၭ /pə pʰloúɴ ɕô ʔə leiʔ kʰàɴ tʰeiʔ/) is an abugida used for writing Western Pwo language. It was derived from the Burmese script in the early 19th century, and ultimately from either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India.
/t͡ʃʰ/ and /w/ only rarely occur, and with /t͡ʃʰ/ only occurring in word-initial position. The pre-aspirated voiceless /ʰr̥/, may have a word-initial allophone of [], [ʂ] rarely occurs phonemically.
His work A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, explained in English is still considered the best reference regarding the Ojibwe vocabulary of western Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin. In his dictionary, grammar books, and prayer book, the sound representations of Ojibwe are shown in the table below.
Bassa alphabet [35] of Liberia; Bété syllabary of Ivory Coast; Dita, used to write Fula. [34] The Garay alphabet, used to write Wolof and Mandinka in Senegal and The Gambia [36] Gbékoun script for Fon and other Languages of Benin. Gola Script for Liberia [34] and eastern Sierra Leone. Goulsse Alphabet for Gur languages; Several scripts used ...
In the Bengali alphabet, অ্যা is used when the intended pronunciation would otherwise be ambiguous. [ clarification needed ] Some other languages use a vowel অৗ to denote / ɯ / which is not found in either Bengali or Assamese; and though the vowel diacritic ( matra , ৗ ) is found in Tirhuta the vowel letter itself is absent.
The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: বাংলা বর্ণমালা, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: বাংলা লিপি, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.
Acharian dated the invention to 408, four years after Mashtots created the Armenian alphabet (he dated the latter event to 404). [19] Some Western scholars quote Koryun's claims without taking a stance on its validity [20] [21] or concede that Armenian clerics, if not Mashtots himself, must have played a role in the creation of the Georgian script.
Grave of Solomana Kanté. The French at the bottom reads “Inventor of the N'Ko alphabet”. Kanté created N’Ko in response to erroneous beliefs that no indigenous African writing system existed, as well as to provide a better way to write Manding languages, which had for centuries been written predominantly in Ajami script, which was not perfectly suited to the tones unique to Mandé and ...