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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
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.
The Bagam or Eghap script is a partially deciphered Cameroonian script of several hundred characters. It was invented by King Pufong of the Bagam (Eghap) people, c. 1900, and used for letters and records, though it was never in wide use.
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.
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.
Vute is a Mambiloid language of Cameroon and Gabon, with a thousand speakers in Nigeria. The orthography was standardized on March 9, 1979. [ 2 ] Noted dialect clusters are eastern, central, and Doume .
Most East Asian characters are usually inscribed in an invisible square with a fixed width. Although there is also a history of half-width characters, many Japanese, Korean and Chinese fonts include full-width forms for the letters of the basic roman alphabet and also include digits and punctuation as found in US ASCII. These fixed-width forms ...
Camfranglais (French pronunciation: [kamfʁɑ̃ɡlɛ] ⓘ), Francanglais, or Francamglais (portmanteau of the French adjectives camerounais, français, and anglais) is a vernacular of Cameroon, containing grammatical and lexical elements from Cameroonian French, Cameroonian English and Cameroonian Pidgin English, in addition to lexical contributions from various indigenous languages of Cameroon.