Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Pan-Nigerian Alphabet

Robert Bringhurst (2004, 116) says that Hermann Zapf designed a Pan-Nigerian alphabet in 1983, which:
normalizes the mission orthographies that had been used for Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Fulfulde and several other Nigerian languages.
Wikipedia claims that Zapf finalised the alphabet in 1985, and doesn't refer, as Bringurst does, to the help that Zapf is supposed to have had from Victor Manfredi.
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