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The ADLaM Story

Abdoulaye Barry and Ibrahima Barry


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category:  Poster
Session:  6 December Session P4: African Languages Poster Session

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Abstract:   Thirty years ago, my brother and I created ADLaM to accurately transcribe all the sounds of the Fulfulde language spoken by more than 60 million people in Africa. The alphabet contains 28 letters and it was encoded in 2016 in Unicode 9.0. Since then our goal has been to try to get ADLaM working on every smartphone and computer. ADLaM is currently supported by Google through Android 8 and Chrome, and also by Microsoft through Windows 10. The script is now used from Gambia to Sudan by people who are very excited to use their language in their everyday life.

 
Resume:   𞤁𞤵𞥅𞤩𞤫 𞥓𞥐 𞤢𞤣𞤮 𞤸𞤢𞤲𞤣𞤫⹁ 𞤥𞤭𞤲 𞤫 𞤥𞤢𞤱𞤲𞤢𞤲 𞤢𞤲⹁ 𞤥𞤫𞤲 𞤧𞤭𞤲𞤷𞤭 𞤦𞤭𞤲𞤣𞤮𞤤 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥 𞤲𞤺𞤮𞤤 𞤲𞤮 𞤲𞤫𞤱𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤲𞤮 𞤸𞤭𞤼𞤮𞥅𞤶𞤭 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫 𞤯𞤭𞤲 𞤬𞤮𞤬 𞤱𞤭𞤲𞤣𞤮𞤪𞤢. 𞤑𞤮 𞤴𞤢𞤱𞤼𞤭 𞤣𞤵𞤦𞤵𞥅𞤶𞤫 𞥖𞥐 𞤴𞤭𞤥𞤩𞤫 𞤲𞤮 𞤸𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤢 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤬𞤵𞤤𞤣𞤫 𞤫 𞤲𞤣𞤫𞤪 𞤀𞤬𞤪𞤭𞤳𞤢𞥄. 𞤀𞤤𞤳𞤵𞤤𞤫 𞤯𞤫𞤲 𞤳𞤮 𞥒𞥘⹁ 𞤳𞤮 𞤫 𞥒𞥐𞥑𞥖 𞤯𞤫 𞤴𞤵𞤩𞥆𞤢𞥄 𞤳𞤢 𞤲𞤶𞤵𞤩𞥆𞤵𞤣𞤭 𞤒𞤵𞤲𞤭𞤳𞤮𞥅𞤣 𞥙. 𞤘𞤭𞤤𞤢 𞤲𞤣𞤫𞤲⹁ 𞤬𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤪𞤫 𞤢𞤥𞤫𞤲 𞤲𞤣𞤫𞤲⹁ 𞤳𞤮 𞤲𞤮 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥 𞤺𞤮𞤤𞥆𞤭𞤪𞤢 𞤫 𞤳𞤢𞤤𞤢 𞤫𞤱𞤲𞤮𞤪𞤳𞤵𞤲 𞤥𞤢𞥄 𞤬𞤮𞥅𞤺𞤭𞤪𞤺𞤢𞤤. 𞤊𞤫𞤱𞤲𞤣𞤮 𞤸𞤢𞤲𞤣𞤫⹁ 𞤘𞤵𞥅𞤺𞤮𞤤 𞤫 𞤃𞤢𞤴𞤳𞤮𞤪𞤮𞤧𞤮𞤬𞤼 𞤲𞤮 𞤼𞤢𞤥𞤦𞤭𞤼𞤮𞤪𞤭 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥 𞤳𞤢 𞤲𞤶𞤵𞤩𞥆𞤵𞤤𞤭 𞤥𞤢𞤩𞥆𞤫 𞤀𞤲𞤣𞤮𞤪𞤮𞤴𞤭𞤣⹁ 𞤑𞤮𞤪𞤮𞤥 𞤫 𞤏𞤭𞤲𞤣𞤮𞥅𞤧. 𞤄𞤭𞤲𞤣𞤮𞤤 𞤀𞤣𞤤𞤢𞤥 𞤲𞤮 𞤸𞤵𞥅𞤱𞤼𞤮𞤪𞤫𞥅 𞤶𞤮𞥅𞤲𞤭 𞤺𞤭𞤤𞤢 𞤺𞤭𞤤𞤢 𞤘𞤢𞤥𞤦𞤭𞤴𞤢 𞤸𞤢𞥄 𞤅𞤵𞤣𞤢𞤲 𞤫 𞤸𞤢𞥄𞤶𞤵𞥅𞤶𞤭 𞤴𞤭𞤥𞤩𞤫 𞤳𞤫𞥅𞤱𞤵𞤯𞤭.

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