General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages
Encyclopedia
The General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages was created in the late 1970s from the basic Latin alphabet as an orthographic
system for all Cameroonian languages
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Maurice Tadadjeu and Etienne Sadembouo were central to this effort.
Orthography
The orthography of a language specifies a standardized way of using a specific writing system to write the language. Where more than one writing system is used for a language, for example Kurdish, Uyghur, Serbian or Inuktitut, there can be more than one orthography...
system for all Cameroonian languages
Languages of Cameroon
Cameroon is home to 230 languages. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, and 173 Niger–Congo languages. This latter group is divided into one West Atlantic language , 32 Adamawa-Ubangui languages, and 142 Benue–Congo languages .English and French are official...
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Maurice Tadadjeu and Etienne Sadembouo were central to this effort.