[Lgpolicy-list] [lg policy] Letter "h" in Fula; Language & ebola planning; Standard Mende orthography

[dzo at bisharat.net]

Three recent blog posts may be of interest to some on this list:

1) Fula and the letter H (The letter "h" has an interesting history in 
Europe. Maybe also in in Africa in the case of Fulfulde/Pular...)  4 
October 2014
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2014/10/fula-and-letter-h.html

2) On the Atlantic Council's "Combating the Ebola Outbreak" (Some ways 
in which language is important to the topics discussed by an expert 
panel on ebola at the Atlantic Council.) 6 October 2014
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2014/10/on-atlantic-councils-combating-ebola.html

3) Putting the "ɛ" (back) in Mende (Some ebola info in Mende language 
was not in standard orthography - why is this important?) 9 October 2014
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2014/10/putting-back-in-mende.html

Don Osborn, PhD

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