Any spoken and unwritten language is a language destined for disappearance.
Thanks to this application offered by Resulam, you can learn in a visual and sound way the General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages, Gabonese, The African Alphabet of Reference (ARA), The African International Alphabet (AIA), The Alphabet of languages of Benin, Pan-Nigeria, in short, the Phonetic Alphabet of African Languages.
Although some conventions may differ slightly from one country to another, this application aims to standardize the writing of African languages.
The African Reference Alphabet (ARA) is an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet, proposed at the Niamey meeting organized by UNESCO in Niger in 1978.
The Niamey meeting recommended the use of a letter with or without diacritic accents to represent a phoneme instead of a digram or trigram.
The African International Alphabet (AIA) is an alphabet based on the Latin alphabet, proposed in 1927 by the International Institute of African Languages and Civilizations in London under the direction of Diedrich Westermann. It was created to enable the transcription of African languages for scientific and practical purposes.
The Alphabet des langues nationaux is a set of rules for language writing in Benin, developed by the National Linguistic Commission (CNL) in 1975.
The Pan-Nigerian alphabet is a set of Latin characters including diacritical letters and additional letters. It was designed so that one can, in theory, write all the languages of Nigeria
The standardization and standardization of the spelling of the national languages of Zaire is a set of orthographic rules and alphabetical criteria recommended by one of the commissions of the first seminar of the linguists of Zaire (today Democratic Republic of the Congo) in Lubumbashi from 22 to 26 May 1974. The languages directly concerned are: Kikongo, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba.
The General Alphabet of Cameroonian Languages (AGLC) is a subset of the Phonetic Alphabet of African Languages, which is a set of graphs created for the languages of Cameroon.
This alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet and uses additional letters. It comes from the Alphabet of the Bantu languages of 1970. It was created in 1978, edited by Maurice Tadadjeu and Etienne Sadembouo, tested for a year and adopted under the aegis of the University of Yaoundé and scientific research (ONAREST ) with the participation of linguists from SIL International. It is published again in 1984.
The National Association of Cameroon Language Commissions (ANACLAC) has adopted the AGLC as an alphabet and spelling for its work in Cameroonian languages.
PS. Phonology studies the ORTHOGRAPHIC organization of the sounds of a language, while phonetics focuses on sounds as acoustic units. The purpose of phonetics is to associate each sound with a unique symbol, while phonology gives itself orthographic rules for reading a word.
KeyWords: African Language, Bantu Languages, Cameroonian Languages, Bamileke Languages, Sawa Language, Beti-Fang Languages, Fe'efe'e, Bafang, Bana, Upper Nkam, Grassfield, Minority Languages.
