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
Romic alphabet their English "short" sounds when written singly, and their "long" sounds when doubled: Sweet adopted from Ellis and earlier philologists a method creating new letters by rotating existing ones, as in this way no new type would need to be cast: The IPA letter acquired its modern pronunciation and first use with this alphabet. He resurrected three Anglo-Saxon letters, ash , eth and thorn , the first two of which had the pronunciations they retain in the IPA. The consonants were as follows by 1892: The vowels were as follows by 1892. In "wide" vowels, the tongue is described as