Pannigerian alphabet
The Pannigerian alphabet is a variant of the Latin alphabet or the African alphabet that has been expanded to include numerous special characters and is used in Nigeria . It represents a common set of characters from which the orthographies of the numerous Nigerian individual languages (including Hausa , Yoruba , Igbo ) are used. Sometimes very complex sound systems with the simple Latin alphabet (A – Z) would be difficult to write.
The price for the adequate spelling of the phonetic inventory is the numerous special characters, some of which (such as Ƙ / ƙ - »K with a hook«) are rarely used outside of Nigeria. Corresponding typewriters are used in Nigeria ; for computers, however , the unusual characters are still a major problem (see also the article on Unicode ).
The Pannigerian alphabet was designed in 1985 by the typographer Hermann Zapf and borrows from the International Phonetic Alphabet .
It is noteworthy that it is not the alphabet of a certain language, but of a certain area: Within Nigeria it is used to write numerous languages, on the other hand, for example, the Pannigerian alphabet is used for Hausa in Nigeria and a completely different one in the neighboring state of Niger Orthography.
| code | character | code | character |
|---|---|---|---|
| U + 0100 | Ā | U + 0101 | - |
| A̱ | a̱ | ||
| U + 1EA0 | Ạ | U + 1EA1 | ạ |
| U + 1E04 | Ḅ | U + 1E05 | ḅ |
| U + 0181 | Ɓ | U + 0253 | ɓ |
| U + 1E0C | Ḍ | U + 1E0D | ḍ |
| U + 018A | Ɗ | U + 0257 | ɗ |
| E̱ | e̱ | ||
| U + 1EB8 | Ẹ | U + 1EB9 | ẹ |
| U + 018E | Ǝ | U + 01DD | ǝ |
| U + 0190 | Ɛ | U + 025B | ɛ |
| U + 1E24 | H | U + 1E25 | H |
| U + 1ECA | Ị | U + 1ECB | ị |
| U + 0197 | Ɨ | U + 0268 | ɨ |
| U + 0198 | Ƙ | U + 0199 | ƙ |
| U + 1E44 | Ṅ | U + 1E45 | ṅ |
| U + 1E46 | Ṇ | U + 1E47 | ṇ |
| U + 014A | Ŋ | U + 014B | ŋ |
| U + 00D1 | Ñ | U + 00F1 | ñ |
| N̄ | n̄ | ||
| O | O | ||
| U + 1ECC | O | U + 1ECD | O |
| U + 0186 | Ɔ | U + 0254 | ɔ |
| U + 0245 | Ʌ | U + 028C | ʌ |
| U + 1E62 | Ṣ | U + 1E63 | ṣ |
| U + 1EE4 | Ụ | U + 1EE5 | ụ |
| 'W | ʼW | ||
| 'Y | ʼY | ||
| U + 1E92 | Ẓ | U + 1E93 | ẓ |
| U + 02BC | ʼ |
Some characters do not have their own code point, so that combination characters must be used, such as U + 0304 for the superscript macron and U + 0331 for the subscript macron.