Garay alphabet
The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system "[marrying] African sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye. This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels.[1] It is used in particular for the writing of the Wolof language, spoken mostly in Senegal, although it's more often written in the Latin alphabet. It is written from right to left, and distinguishes letter case.
| Garay | |
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| Type | alphabet
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| Languages | Wolof |
| Creator | Assane Faye |
| Created | 1961 |
A proposal to encode Garay in Unicode was submitted in 2012.
References
- The Garay alphabet can contribute to the rebirth of Africa, according to its inventor , Birane Hady Cissé, on fr.allafrica.com (April 21, 2009, accessed November 7, 2018).
Bibliography
- Everson, Michael (April 26, 2012). Preliminary proposal for encoding the Garay script in the SMP of the UCS (PDF).
- Pandey, Anshuman (May 9, 2011). Introducing the Wolof Alphabet of Assane Faye (PDF).
External links
- Discover Garay, Movement of Teachers of African Languages in Senegal (MELAS).
- James, Ian (March 2012). "Garay script of Wolof". SkyKnowledge.com.
- "Wolof (Wollof)". Omniglot.
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