General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages

B with a left hook, a letter unique to the General Alphabet.

The General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages is an orthographic system created in the late 1970s for all Cameroonian languages.[1][2] Consonant and vowel letters are not to contain diacritics, though ⟨ẅ⟩ is a temporary exception. The alphabet is not used sufficiently for the one unique letter, a bilabial trill, to have been added to Unicode.

Maurice Tadadjeu and Etienne Sadembouo were central to this effort.

  1. ^ Tadadjeu, Maurice and Etienne Sadembouo. 1979. Alphabet Générale des Langues Camerounaises. Departement des Langues Africaines et Linguistique, Université de Yaoundé, Cameroun.
  2. ^ Bird, Stephen. 2001. "Orthography and Identity in Cameroon."