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X-Posted from "Hausa language, literature and culture" <H-HAUSA@H-NET.MSU.EDU> From: "John Philips, Hirosaki University" <philips@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU> -------- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 09:04:11 +0800 From: "Donald Z. Osborn" <dzo@bisharat.net> Subject: Written Hausa in Ghana Down to nitty details in completing locale data for Hausa, the group working on it has a question re the orthography or writing conventions in Ghana. (The locales privide information to computer systems for language choices, and the way the system is set up, they are defined by language and country [ha for Hausa, NG for Nigeria, NE for Niger, GH for Ghana and so on]). As a preface, I've heard that the implosive and ejective consonants (represented of course by hooked b, d, k, and either 'y [NG] or hooked y [NE]) are not pronounced as clearly in Ghana as in Hausaland, or not at all. Does this translate into non-use of the added letters or are they still used in writing/printing (to the extent that is done in Boko in northern Ghana)? If there is no such established local practice/literature, then I'm suggesting to go with the standard Boko of Nigeria. The following remarks concerning the ejective y ('y) from a Ghanaian involved in the discussion may be of interest:
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