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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.
Popular singers have used the hybrid language and added to its popularity. [14] Education for the deaf in Cameroon uses American Sign Language, introduced by the deaf American missionary Andrew Foster. [citation needed] There is little literature, radio, or television programming in native Cameroonian languages.
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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.
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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.
Nso (Lamnso, Lamnsɔ’) is the Grassfields language of the Nso people of western Cameroon. A few may remain in Nigeria. It has ten major noun classes. [3] The ISO 639-3 code is lns. [4] Nso is spoken by over 100,000 people. [5]
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