Notes on Themne
Bibliography
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Hartell, Rhonda L. 1993. Alphabets de langues
africaines. Dakar, Senegal: Unesco, Bureau Régional de
Dakar. ISBN 9290910197. Interactive version at http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/.
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Chanard, Christian. 2006. Systèmes
alphabétiques des langues africaines, http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/index.htm (an online
interactive subset of Hartell).
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UCC and UMC. 1980. A Themne Orthography Workshop, Ministry of Education, Fretown, February 18-22, 1980 / sponsored by the U.C.C. Provincial Literature Bureau and the United Methodist Literacy Programme.
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http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Temne; contains a scan of a page of the document above.
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http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/SL-table.htm,
for a list of characters used in Themne.
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http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/tem/ortho-1
for a reproduction of the page of “Alphabets of Africa” for
Themne.
Orthography used in this translation
The only difference between the orthographies presented in
[UCC and UMC] and in [Hartell] seems to be the use of U+1EA1
ạ LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW in the former, and
U+028C ʌ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V in the latter. In this
translation, we have used the latter, as it seems more modern. It is
also used, e.g., at http://www.visitsierraleone.org/temne.asp.