ENCODING UTF-8 # African dialects # # Samuel Thibault # # Note: this is based on the Unesco report on the progress of unification of braille writing « L'ÉCRITURE BRAILLE DANS LE MONDE », by Sir Clutha MACKENZIE, dated _1954_, so this table may be quite outdated. # # This is actually not a real table per se, but the base for african dialects like Swahili, Malagasy, Hausa, Zulu, Shona, Munda, Chichewa, and Maori NAME "African dialects" # consonants UCS-CHAR b ⠃ # B # ⠘ # ʙ # ⠆ # implosive B in haoussa, ibo, etc. UCS-CHAR c ⠉ # reserved for european, not to be attributed to TCH, unless there are two variants of this sound UCS-CHAR d ⠙ # D # ⠫ # ɖ, accented D in haoussa, etc. UCS-CHAR f ⠋ # F # ⠖ # ɸ, tswana F, variant of F or PH. UCS-CHAR g ⠛ # G in french Goutte UCS-CHAR h ⠓ # H # ⠱ # ħ, arabic strong H, may be a variant of H if needed # ⠚ # english J in john, near to DJ in DJINN # ⠴ # ʒ french j. JH, ZH, CS. UCS-CHAR k ⠅ # K UCS-CHAR q ⠟ # latin Q and arabic QAF # ⠨ # ɢ KH or K UCS-CHAR l ⠇ # L # ⠸ # ɭ variant of L UCS-CHAR m ⠍ # M UCS-CHAR n ⠝ # N # ⠔ # ɲ or ⠢ if one of them is not used as a variant for I or E # ⠬ # ŋ english NG in sing or ding-dong UCS-CHAR p ⠏ # P UCS-CHAR r ⠗ # R # ⠻ # ɽ as a variant of R if needed UCS-CHAR s ⠎ # S # ⠯ # ʂ as a variant of S if needed UCS-CHAR t ⠞ # T # ⠾ # ʈ as a variant of T if needed UCS-CHAR v ⠧ # V UCS-CHAR w ⠺ # english W in Walk # ⠽ # french ï in aïe, english Y in Yet # ⠿ # ɥ third form of U, if needed UCS-CHAR z ⠵ # french z in Zèle # ⠷ # ʐ as a variant of Z if needed # ⠡ # tʃ TCH # ⠣ # v arabic CH and GAYN # ⠩ # ʃ arabic CH and SIN # ⠹ # θ english TH in thing # ⠮ # ð english TH in this, arabic DAL and DH UCS-CHAR x ⠭ # scottish CH in loch, german ach, arabic HA # ⠄ # ʕ arabic Hamza, needed in haoussa, etc. # voyels UCS-CHAR a ⠁ # cardinal A # ⠜ # ɑ long A UCS-CHAR e ⠑ # cardinal E # ⠢ # ɛ to be used as variant of e if needed, or for AI and EI diphtongues UCS-CHAR i ⠊ # cardinal I; french I and english EE # ⠔ # ɩ for differentiating between long I and short I UCS-CHAR o ⠕ # cardinal O UCS-CHAR œ ⠪ # for OE diphtongue, OW or AU, or any variant of O UCS-CHAR u ⠥ # cardinal U # ⠳ # y variant of U if needed