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
Kaddare alphabet resemblance to Brahmi. As there are no dedicated characters for long vowels, a vowel is made long by simply writing it twice. Kaddare alphabet The Kaddare alphabet is a writing script created to transcribe Somali, an Afro-Asiatic language. The orthography was invented in 1952 by Sheikh Hussein Sheikh Ahmed Kaddare of the Abgaal Hawiye clan. A phonetically robust writing system, the technical commissions that appraised the Kaddare script concurred that it was a very accurate orthography for transcribing Somali. The Kaddare script uses both upper and lower case letters, with the lower case represented in cursive. Many characters are transcribed