Gold Coast alphabet Gold Coast alphabet The Gold Coast alphabet also Gold Coast language was a Latin alphabet used to write the Akan language during the Gold Coast era, now Ghana. It differed from the current Akan alphabet in several ways, of which the most fundamental was in vowel notation. Akan has nine vowels, four pairs that differ whether they have an advanced tongue root (), and , which is -neutral. In the Gold Coast script, the non- vowels were written with the five vowels of the Latin script, "a e i o u," and the vowels by adding a subscript dot to
Fraser alphabet Fraser alphabet The Fraser alphabet or Old Lisu Alphabet is an artificial script invented around 1915 by Sara Ba Thaw, a Karen preacher from Myanmar, and improved by the missionary James O. Fraser, to write the Lisu language. It is a single-case (unicameral) alphabet. It was also used for the Naxi language, e.g. the 1932 Naxi Gospel of Mark., and used in the Zaiwa or Atsi language e.g. the 1938 Atsi Gospel of Mark. The alphabet uses uppercase letters from the Latin script, and rotated versions thereof, to write consonants and vowels. Tones and nasalization are written with Roman punctuation