Notes on Themne

Bibliography

• 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/.

• Chanard, Christian. 2006. Systèmes alphabétiques des langues africaines, http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/index.htm (an online interactive subset of Hartell).

• 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.

• http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Temne; contains a scan of a page of the document above.

• http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/SL-table.htm, for a list of characters used in Themne.

• 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.