Kogo language

Kogo, also referred to as Bakoko[1] and Basoo,[1] is a Bantu language of Cameroon. North and South Kogo are as distinct from each other as they are from Basaa; they might be considered three dialects of a single language.[4]

Kogo
Bakoko
Native toCameroon
EthnicityBakoko
Native speakers
(50,000 cited 1982)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bkh
Glottologbako1249[2]
A.43b[3]

Orthography

Kogo uses the Latin script.[1] Its alphabet is based on the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages and consists of 7 vowels and 20 consonants.[5][6]

Letters (upper case)ABƁCDEƐFGHIJKLMNŊOƆPSTUVWYZ
Letters (lower case)abɓcdeɛfghijklmnŋoɔpstuvwyz
IPAabɓt͡ʃdeɛfɡhid͡ʒklm nŋoɔpstuvwjz

Sample text

The Lord's Prayer in Kogo and English:[7]

gollark: You can get a rough high-level overview of it, but we've done that with brains.
gollark: They have billions of transistors in them, imaging them is hard itself, nobody actually knows how all the parts work, and they're designed with computerized design tools such that nobody knows what's going on with all the individual transistors either.
gollark: You can't really dissect a modern CPU and work out how it works, though.
gollark: https://github.com/minimaxir/aitextgen
gollark: It'll work even without a GPU, if very slowly.

References
  1. Kogo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Bakoko". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online
  4. Maho 2009
  5. "Bakoko Orthography Guide" (PDF). silcam.org. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  6. Njeck and Anderson 2009
  7. "Bakoko Language Sample". language-museum.com. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
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