Awesome! That's a nice website!

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Don Osborn" <dzo@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Brittanie, At some point I still think we need a database interface
> for information on orthographies in Africa - unfortunately much of the
> information is in flux or dated or unreliable. One nice effort to
> accomplish this is Christian Chanard's Systèmes alphabétiques
des
> langues africaines at http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/index.htm (which
> is based on information in Hartell 1993).
>
> Don
>
> --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Brittanie" wapogipo928@ wrote:
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Don Osborn" <dzo@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any info on the story behind the upper case
hooked B,
> > > D, K, and Y consonants (Ɓ, Ɗ, Ƙ, and Ƴ)?
> > >
> > > At the time of publication of the Africa Alphabet (2nd ed., 1930),
a
> > > Cyrillic-like Ƃ was used. When was the current uppercase form
> > > developed and linked to the lowercase form?
> > >
> > > TIA for any info. Don
> > >
> > >
> > > Ref:
> > > http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/poal30.htm (Zulu sample text)
> > > Thanks to Denis Moyogo Jacquerye for raising a question re the
form
> > > used in this document.
> > >
> > > See also:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:%C6%81
> > >
> >
> > WOW! Thanks alot for the links! I never knew any of those. Although
I
> > knew that some of letters were used in African languages. But I
didn't
> > know that much about them. Thanks alot!
> >
>