Gold Coast alphabet for an explanation of the symbols in the first two columns.) 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
Scale of vowels Scale of vowels A scale of vowels is an arrangement of vowels in order of perceived "pitch". A scale used for poetry in American English lists the vowels by the frequency of the second formant (the higher of the two overtones that define a vowel sound). Starting with the highest, In technical terms, this listing goes from front vowels to back vowels. It is by no means precise enough for phonology. For one thing, the sounds with or as the second symbol are diphthongs, during which the formants change. Also, many American accents and practically all from other countries will