Awing language

Awing, or Mbwe'wi, is a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon.

Awing
Mbwe'wi
Native toCameroon
Native speakers
19,000 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3azo
Glottologawin1248[2]

Alphabet

The Awing alphabet was proposed by experts from SIL International and the Cameroon Association For Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL) in 2005. It was since then used for publishing Bible translations, Awing folk stories, and other materials.

The Awing alphabet is based on the Latin alphabet. The letters H, Q, R, V, and X are not used, and several special characters and digraphs, as well as the apostrophe are added.

Uppercase A B Ch D E Ɛ Ə F G Gh I Ɨ J K ʼ L M N Ny Ŋ O Ɔ P S Sh T Ts U W Y Z
Lowercase a b ch d e ɛ ə f g gh i ɨ j k ʼ l m n ny ŋ o ɔ p s sh t ts u w y z
IPA [a] [b] [tʃ] [d] [e] [ɛ] [ə] [f] [ɡ] [ɣ] [i] [ɨ] [ʒ], [dʒ] [k] [ʔ] [l], [ɾ] [m] [n] [ɲ] [ŋ] [o] [ɔ] [p] [s] [ʃ] [t], [tʰ] [ts] [u] [w], [ɥ] [j] [z], [dz]

Long vowels are indicated by repeating the vowel letter.

⟨n⟩, ⟨m⟩, ⟨ŋ⟩, and ⟨ny⟩ may be syllabic nasals ([n̩], [m̩], [ŋ̩], [ɲ̩]).

Tones are indicated using diacritics on the first vowel or nasal of the syllable. Both high and mid tone are marked with the acute accent, and the low tone is not explicitly written:

Tone IPA Grapheme
High á á
Mid ā
Low à a
Rising ǎ ǎ
Falling â â

Diaeresis on the vowel before the verb marks the habitual aspect.

gollark: The government has some sort of scheme for subsidizing internet connection upgrades in rural areas which I think we're eligible for, except we have a long contract with the ISP so it probably wouldn't be very useful in the short run.
gollark: The main advantage would probably just be an SLA (not that important, I have basically zero reliability requirements) and static IP (convenient).
gollark: No idea, didn't check.
gollark: And which seems to at least vaguely tolerate running a publicly exposed server off the connection, although they do not really make it convenient.
gollark: I do like having an ISP which, while quite slow, happily lets us just download terabytes a month with no problems.
  • Alomofor, Christian; Anderson, Stephen C. (2005). Awing Orthography Guide (PDF). Cameroon: SIL Cameroon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-22. Retrieved 2017-09-03.

References
  1. Awing at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Awing". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.



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