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Are the phonemic values of these letters standardised in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet, or does each letter represent a small category of sounds? Could someone who knows them add IPA transcriptions for the associated sounds? — Felix the Cassowary 08:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I recall hearing more of the history of the PanNigerian alphabet project than is related in this article. Among other things, there was also a spinoff effort called PanKwa that resulted in a Mac font (pre- Unicode) that, despite the name, covered a range of West African language transcription needs. Will try to get relevant input.-- A12n 17:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Thus spake the article:
But not if you have a browser that actually uses the font it's told to use – Internet Explorer. I just solved the problem by putting the Unicode template around the special characters.
David Marjanović | david.marjanovic_at_gmx.at | 23:50 CET | 2006/11/15
"It is intended to be sufficient to write all the languages of Nigeria without using digraphs."
Is this true? There doesn't seem to be a way of writing the nasal vowels of Yoruba without digraphs. פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her ( talk) 01:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
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Are the phonemic values of these letters standardised in the Pan-Nigerian alphabet, or does each letter represent a small category of sounds? Could someone who knows them add IPA transcriptions for the associated sounds? — Felix the Cassowary 08:12, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I recall hearing more of the history of the PanNigerian alphabet project than is related in this article. Among other things, there was also a spinoff effort called PanKwa that resulted in a Mac font (pre- Unicode) that, despite the name, covered a range of West African language transcription needs. Will try to get relevant input.-- A12n 17:56, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
Thus spake the article:
But not if you have a browser that actually uses the font it's told to use – Internet Explorer. I just solved the problem by putting the Unicode template around the special characters.
David Marjanović | david.marjanovic_at_gmx.at | 23:50 CET | 2006/11/15
"It is intended to be sufficient to write all the languages of Nigeria without using digraphs."
Is this true? There doesn't seem to be a way of writing the nasal vowels of Yoruba without digraphs. פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her ( talk) 01:05, 23 May 2021 (UTC)