Alphabet Phonétique des Langue

Learn Phonetic Alphabet of African Languages

Any spoken and unwritten language is a language doomed to disappear.

Thanks to this application that Resulam offers you, you can visually and audibly learn the General Alphabet of Cameroonian and Gabonese Languages, The African Reference Alphabet (ARA), The International African 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 diacritical accents to represent a phoneme instead of a digram or trigram.

The International African 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 allow the transcription of African languages ​​for scientific and practical uses.

The Alphabet of National Languages ​​is a set of rules for writing languages ​​of Benin, developed by the National Linguistic Commission (CNL) in 1975.

The Pan-Nigerian alphabet is a set of Latin characters consisting of diacritical letters and additional letters. It was designed so that one can, in theory, write all the languages ​​of Nigeria

The standardization and uniformization of the spelling of the national languages ​​of Zaire is a set of spelling rules and alphabetical criteria recommended by one of the commissions of the first seminar of linguists of Zaire (now 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 spellings created for the languages ​​of Cameroon.

This alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet and uses additional letters. It comes from the Alphabet of Bantu languages ​​of 1970. It was created in 1978, edited by Maurice Tadadjeu and Étienne 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 was released again in 1984.

The National Association of Cameroonian Language Commissions (ANACLAC) has adopted the AGLC as the alphabet and its spelling for its work in Cameroonian languages.

PS. Phonology studies the ORTHOGRAPHIC organization of sounds in a language, while phonetics studies sounds as acoustic units. The purpose of phonetics is to associate a unique symbol with each sound, while phonology gives itself orthographic rules for reading a word.