Weh orthography guide
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2009-11
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23 pages
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This paper provides suggestions towards an orthography for Weh, a Grassfields Bantu
language spoken by about 7,000 people in the Menchum Division of the North West
Province, Republic of Cameroon.
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Published
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Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments and Preamble -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ALPHABET -- 2.1 Consonants -- 2.1.1 Nasal-Consonant complexes -- 2.1.2 More double consonants -- 2.1.3 Consonants plus ‘w’ -- 2.1.4 Other consonant combinations -- 2.1.5 Consonant orthography rules -- 2.2 Vowels -- 2.2.1 Vowel length -- 2.2.2 Vowel diphthongs -- 2.2.3 Vowel orthography rules -- 3 TONE -- 3.1 Lexical tone contrasts marked by diacritics -- 3.2 Grammatical tone contrasts -- 4 WORD DIVISION -- 4.1 Associative noun phrases -- 4.2 Compound words -- 5 PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALISATION -- 6 NEED FOR FURTHER TESTING AND RESEARCH -- References
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47887