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The Khoe (/ ˈ k w eɪ / [2] KWAY) languages are the largest of the non-Bantu language families indigenous to Southern Africa. They were once considered to be a branch of a Khoisan language family, and were known as Central Khoisan in that scenario. Though Khoisan is now rejected as a family, the name is retained as a term of convenience.
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]
The script was devised by Mohamed Turay (ca. 1850-1923), an Islamic scholar, at a town called Maka (Barri Chiefdom, southern Sierra Leone) around 1917.His writing system, an abugida called 'Kikakui' after the first three consonant sounds, was inspired by the Arabic abjad, the Vai syllabary and certain indigenous Mende pictograms and cryptographic characters.
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.
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]
The Western Cham people are mostly Muslim [9] and therefore prefer the Arabic script. The Eastern Cham are mostly Hindu and continued to use the Indic script. During French colonial times, both groups had to use the Latin alphabet. [citation needed] There are two varieties of the Cham script: Akhar Thrah (Eastern Cham) and Akhar Srak (Western ...
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]
Luba-Kasai, also known as Cilubà or Tshilubà, [4] Luba-Lulua, [5] [6] is a Bantu language of Central Africa and a national language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, alongside Lingala, Swahili, and Kikongo ya leta.