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Wolofal, like its parent system, the Arabic script, is an abjad.This means that only consonants are represented with letters. Vowels are shown with diacritics.As a matter of fact, writing of diacritics, including zero-vowel (sukun) diacritic as per the orthographic are mandatory.
The Woleai or Caroline Island script, thought to have been a syllabary, was a partially Latin-based script indigenous to Woleai Atoll and nearby islands of Micronesia and used to write the Woleaian language until the mid-20th century.
During the 20th century, the only data available were a short word list in De Roepstorff (1875), [3] scattered notes Man (1886) [4] and comparative list in Man (1889). [5]It was a century before more data became available, with 70 words being published in 1995 [6] and much new data being published in 2003, the most extensive so far. [7]
Visible Speech with IPA equivalents (Omniglot.com) Visible Speech as a Means of Communicating Articulation to Deaf Mutes (American Memory: Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers) Description and Overview of Visible Speech, with fonts; Visible Speech, by Alex M. Bell through Google books; Primer of Phonetics, by Henry Sweet through Google books.
There are 7 diacritics in Rohingya Arabic Alphabet, which include the Sukun diacritic (zero-vowel), the 3 diacritics inherited from Arabic, representing sounds /a/, /i/, and /u/, as well as three new diacritics unique to Rohingya, representing vowel sounds /ɔ~ɑ/, /e/, and /o/. All of these diacritics represent short vowel sounds.
Dogri (Devanagari: डोगरी; Name Dogra Akkhar: 𑠖𑠵𑠌𑠤𑠮; Nastaliq: ڈوگری; IPA: [ɖoːɡ.ɾiː]) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Western Pahari group, [5] primarily spoken in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, with smaller groups of speakers in the adjoining regions of western Himachal Pradesh, northern Punjab, [6] and north-eastern Pakistani Punjab. [7]
The members of such a pair have the same components, only the location of the components in them is different (e.g. AB vs. BA, ABC vs. ACB). The members of such a pair have very similar meanings. The Sea of Characters (Tangut: 𘝞𗗚 ; Chinese : 文海 ; pinyin : wén hǎi ), a 12th century monolingual Tangut rhyming dictionary, analyzes what ...
Boko (or bookoo) is a Latin-script alphabet used to write the Hausa language. The first boko alphabet was devised by Europeans in the early 19th century, [1] and developed in the early 20th century by the British and French colonial authorities. It was made the official Hausa alphabet in 1930. [2]