Orthography
An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language. It includes norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. Most transnational languages in the modern period have a system of writing, and for most such languages a standard orthography has been developed, often based on a standard variety of the language, and thus exhibiting less dialect variation than the spoken language. Sometimes there may be variation in a language's orthography, as between American and British spelling in the case of English orthography. In some languages orthography is regulated by language academies, although for many languages (including …
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Laws.Africa · 11 October 2021 English
the use of Seychellois Creole language, its orthography, vocabulary and grammar; (b) promote the Seychellois …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English
This history of one of the earliest nineteenth-century mission stations in Natal traces the transformation in the lives of a community that settled first at Indaleni near Richmond and later …
and illustrations Foreword Preface Note on orthography A note on the Wesleyan Missionary Society mission … design of the book. SHEILA MEINTJES NOTE ON ORTHOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHIC PLACE NAMES and named features are … maps.1 As there is much confusion about the orthography of newly standardised place and feature names … refer to the Tugela River, whereas modern Zulu orthography has Thukela as the name of the river, even though … italicised and follow the grammatical rules and orthography of their language of origin: as for example …
Laws.Africa · 19 July 2019 English
following areas: - Geography / cartography - Orthography (language spelling systems) - Language and linguistics …
Laws.Africa · 24 May 2019 English
language concerned including the standardisation, orthography, the production of signs and spelling rules … on- (a) standardisation of spelling and orthography; (b) generation of standards in all the functions …
Laws.Africa · 18 April 2019 English
Dr Nomsa SATYO. Literature Linguistics Orthography Pragmatics Eastern Cape 8. Mr. Mawabo Elijah …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 11 January 2018 English
Microsoft Word - The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies - December 2017 - Final Version.docx JSLS – December 2017 – Volume Six – Edition Two Editor: John Birchall Welcome to …
Sierra Leonean languages, and this is the orthography used in the Krio English Dictionary, which w …
GALA: Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action · 2018 English
Love sucks in 4 parts Love and I Me, having casual sexIt has been a great privilege to work on this edition of QR. [...] There was a boy I …
class/ the beginning of a new syllabary/ the orthography leaking onomatopoeia— sluuuuuuuurp! QR 6 find …
Laws.Africa · 10 October 2016 English
PROVINCE FEATURE 7. iThembalethu (Correction of orthography from Ethembalethu) A Human Settlement in … Settlement 8. Luipaardsvlei (Correction of orthography from Luipadsvlei) A Human Settlement in … Human Settlement 9. Malatsi (Correction of orthography from Malatjie) A Human Settlement in … Settlement 10. Munsieville (Correction of orthography from Munsienville) A Human Settlement … Settlement 11. Rantedal (Correction of orthography from Rent-en- dal) A Human Settlement in …
Laws.Africa · 17 June 2016 English
Railway Station 5. Diphini (correction of orthography from Dipini) A Human Settlement in the Great … 40081 5 2. 10. Emndeni (correction of orthography from Emdeni) A Township in the Gauteng City … Township 11. Esiphethweni (correction of orthography from Isiphethweni) A Location in City of Ekurhuleni … Gauteng Dam 14. Kgatlamping (correction of orthography from Khatamping) A Township in City of Ekurhuleni … Township 16. Khaya sands (correction of orthography from Kaya Sands) A Township in the City of …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 23 April 2016 English
While the majority of the slaves from this region were captured on the mainland, the islands off the coast were where the barracoons (holding pens) were primarily located and where …
present form as he developed his regularized orthography.2 This was not the first suggestion for its name … Bookshop. Coomber, Ajayi, 1992. “The new Krio orthography and some unresolved problems,” in Jones, Sandred … Texas. Nicol, Charles K.O., 1949. “Origins and orthography of the Kriýō language,” The West African Review …
