C'Lela Orthography Version 5 and 2011 Update

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1996 to 2011
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30 pages
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The Committee for the Standardization of C'Lela Orthography gave the initial impetus to this work at a conference held in December 1994. They and other participants in the conference presented papers that are summarized in the introduction of the work.
This work is identified on page 8, after an introduction to its history, as "Orthography Proposal (A Guide for Writers of C'Lela) - Draft 5"
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Draft (posted 'as is' without peer review)
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 3 INTRODUCTION 4 IV ORTHOGRAPHY PROPOSAL (A GUIDE FOR WRITERS OF C'LELA) – DRAFT 5 8 Alphabet 8 Writing of Long Vowels 10 Tone Marking 13 Affixation 14 Spelling of Individual Words 16 Clusters, Glides and Diphthongs 16 Pronouns 17 Vowel Loss and Retention 18 Vowel Insertion 19 Compound Words and Word Division in Phrases 21 Compound Words 21 Nouns qualified by Other Nouns 21 The Use of n as a Link between Nouns 22 Prepositional Phrases involving 'in' 23 Nouns qualified by Adjectives 24 Nouns qualified by Possessive Pronouns 25 Nouns with Definite Article 25 Nouns qualified by Demonstratives 26 Nouns with Numbers 26 The Case of Double Qualifiers 27 Standard Dialect 27 Lexicography 29 Language Development 29 Inquiries and Queries 30
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Nigeria
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58334