Orthography and identity in Cameroon
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Orthography and Identity in Cameroon
The tone languages of sub-Saharan Africa raise challenging questions for the design of new writing systems. Marking too much or too little tone can have grave consequences for the usability of an orthography. Orthography development, past and present, rests on a raft of sociolinguistic issues having little to do with the technical phonological concerns that usually preoccupy orthographers. Some...
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عنوان ژورنال: Written Language & Literacy
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1387-6732,1570-6001
DOI: 10.1075/wll.4.2.02bir