UBC researchers create alphabet for endangered language in Ghana (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

November 5, 2012UBC researchers create alphabet for endangered language in
Ghana

Tags: *Irving K. Barber School of Arts and
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Written language may improve access to education, health care, and
government
[image: Robyn Giffen and Vida Yakong]

Robyn Giffen and Vida Yakong with the new Nabit alphabet

Fourth-year UBC undergraduate student Robyn Giffen has teamed up with PhD
candidate Vida Yakong to create a writing system for the language of Nabit,
an oral spoken language in Northern Ghana.

By first creating an alphabet, and consequently a fully-functional writing
system, Giffen and Yakong hope people in the Nabdam district in Northern
Ghana will have better access to essential services of education, health
care, and government. All are currently delivered in a language not fully
understood by most Nabit speakers, which limits their ability to influence
those essential services.


https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2012/11/05/ubc-researchers-create-alphabet-for-endangered-language-in-ghana/


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