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Guinean languages alphabet information


Following independence, the government of Guinea adopted rules of transcription for the languages of Guinea based on the characters and diacritic combinations available on typewriters of that period.[citation needed] This alphabet was used officially until 1989.

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Guinean languages alphabet

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typewriters of that period.[citation needed] This alphabet was used officially until 1989. The Guinea alphabet made use of several digraphs (including either...

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J with stroke

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like j in English just, and in Oniyan when written with the Guinean languages alphabet in Guinea. A similar letter ⟨ɟ⟩ (dotless j with stroke) is used to...

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Bassari language

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acute accent: é, ó. This is the writing system of Guinea, which uses the Guinean languages alphabet: Basari at Ethnologue (26th ed., 2023) "ScriptSource...

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Pular language

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years in over 20 countries. Up until 1989, Pular in Guinea was written with the Guinean languages alphabet that differed from that used in other countries...

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Fula alphabets

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on typewriters of that period. The Guinean languages alphabet was used officially for indigenous languages of Guinea, including Pular until 1989. In 1989...

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Susu language

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the Guinean languages alphabet under the government of Ahmed Sékou Touré and adapted in 1989 to adhere closer to the African reference alphabet), and...

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Tok Pisin

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inter-ethnic trade languages. While Tok Pisin's name in the language is Tok Pisin, it is also called "New Guinea Pidgin" in English. Papua New Guinean anglophones...

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Manding languages

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Jula, a trade language of Ivory Coast and western Burkina Faso. Manding is part of the larger Mandé family of languages. The Manding languages, the differences...

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Fula language

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Senegambian branch. Unlike most Niger-Congo languages, Fula does not have tones. It is spoken as a first language by the Fula people ("Fulani", Fula: Fulɓe)...

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Dyula language

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some other countries, including Ghana, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. It is one of the Manding languages and is most closely related to Bambara, being mutually...

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Solomana Kante

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November 23, 1987) was a Guinean writer, neographer, and educator, best known as the inventor of the N'Ko alphabet for the Manding language varieties of Africa...

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Mandinka language

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often used in Guinea-Bissau, north east Guinea, and in bordering communities in Ivory Coast and Mali. Additionally, the Garay alphabet, originally developed...

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Latin script

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Dutch alphabets. It is used for many Austronesian languages, including the languages of the Philippines and the Malaysian and Indonesian languages, replacing...

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Rotokas language

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smallest modern alphabet. The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world's smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed...

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Bambara language

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nk. The N'Ko (N'Ko: ߒߞߏ) alphabet is a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a writing system for the Manding languages of West Africa; N’Ko means...

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Ajami script

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script used for writing African languages, particularly Songhai, Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although many other languages are also written using the script...

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Maninka language

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the name of several closely related languages and dialects of the southeastern Manding subgroup of the Mande language family (itself, possibly linked to...

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Phoenician language

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Phoenician belongs to the Canaanite languages and as such is quite similar to Biblical Hebrew and other languages of the group, at least in its early...

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Kpelle language

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/kəˈpɛlə/ language (endonym: "Kpɛlɛɛ") is spoken by the Kpelle people of Liberia, Guinea and Ivory Coast and is part of the Mande language family. Guinean Kpelle...

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Arabic script

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Arabic alphabets are abjads, with the versions used for some languages, such as Sorani, Uyghur, Mandarin, and Serbo-Croatian, being alphabets. It is the...

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Languages of Ghana

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distinct language. Languages that belong to the same ethnic group are usually mutually intelligible. The Dagbanli, Nanumba and Mamprusi languages of Northern...

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Austronesian languages

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Sanskrit. Batak alphabet – used to write several Batak languages. Baybayin – used to write Tagalog and several Philippine languages. Bima alphabet – once used...

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Romance languages

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transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar...

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Adlam script

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which means "the alphabet that protects the peoples from vanishing". It is one of many indigenous scripts developed for specific languages in West Africa...

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Bengali

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Koita, Guinean footballer Bengali Keïta, Guinean centre-back Bengali Singh, Indian politician Izzatullah Bengali, 18th-century Persian language author...

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Tagalog language

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official languages, alongside English. Tagalog is closely related to other Philippine languages, such as the Bikol languages, the Bisayan languages, Ilocano...

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