The Pan-Nigerian Alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet of 33 characters, standardized by the National Language Center of Nigeria in the 1980s for specific local languages belonging to different language groups. Designed to avoid digraphs .
The initial project was proposed by Kay Williamson in 1981, the final version in 1985 was created by the typographer Herman Zapf .
Composition of characters
| Uppercase | A | B | Ɓ | C | D | Ɗ | E | Ǝ | Ẹ | F | G |
| Lowercase | a | b | ɓ | c | d | ɗ | e | ǝ | ẹ | f | g |
| Uppercase | H | I | Ị | J | K | Ƙ | L | M | N | O | Ọ |
| Lowercase | h | i | ị | j | k | ƙ | l | m | n | o | ọ |
| Uppercase | P | R | S | Ṣ | T | U | Ụ | V | W | Y | Z |
| Lowercase | p | r | s | ṣ | t | u | ụ | v | w | y | z |
Accents - acute, gravis and circumflex - are used to indicate tones (high, low and downward), respectively. The middle tone is not indicated.
Keyboard
The following keyboard was developed by Olivetti :
| ^ | " | / | - | ₦ | = | - | ( | ) | Ɗ | Ƙ | |
| ´ | 2 | 3 | four | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ? | ||
| Q | W | E | R | T | Y | U | I | O | P | Ụ | Ị |
| A | S | D | F | G | H | J | K | L | Ẹ | Ǝ | |
| Z | Ɓ | C | V | B | N | M | ; | : | Ṣ | ||
| , | . |
See also
- Lepsius Standard Alphabet
- ISO 6438