Add note on local morphologies of Ɓ rendered as Ƃ in Dan and Kapelle

[clauseggers]

The capital Ɓ has the form of Ƃ in the original document, which is not the current standard form for capital for this letter in most languages but is still preferred for Dan and Kpelle in Liberia.

[kontur]

@clauseggers what "original document" are you referring to and what is the change in Hyperglot that you propose?

[clauseggers]

The origin seems to be ‘Practical Orthography of African Languages Look at the second table http://www.bisharat.net/Documents/poal30-tables.html#tbl

[moyogo]

Specifically this is the Gio (Dan in Liberia) [dnj] orthography, Liberia Kpelle [xpe] orthography and also Loma [lom] in Liberia. Dan (Eastern Dan and Western Dan) [dnj] in Côte d’Ivoire (same language as Gio in Liberia in ISO 639-3), Guinea Kpelle [gkp], Toma [tod] in Guinea.

The Practical Orthography of African Languages is a general reference and shows the usage of the early 1930s. Liberia languages had their orthographies defined around that period. However Hausa started using Ɓ with the top-left-hook like Ɗ in the late 1930s. After the 1960s, general reference alphabets used the top-left-hook form of Ɓ and this is likely why most languages that use the letter do so as well since their current orthographies date from after that.

Some references (including some shown in https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08182r-latin-cyr.pdf):

for Gio (Dan in Liberia) [dnj] used in :

• The Dan Literacy Association, Dan Wo Lonosɥ Wãa a Bɛ̃ɛsɥ Gɛ̃gbaã Kwi (First Step to Reading and Writing Dan), Monrovia: Liberian Bible Translation & Literacy Organization (LIBTRALO), 2001
• Menmon Paul Z. Dunah, Ko Dan Kwi Lono: Kwi Be 1 (Dan Graded Reader Book I), Monrovia: Dan Literacy and Translation Association, 2001

for Liberia Kpelle [xpe]:

• Paul Kanmu Ricks, Kwaa pa Kpɛlɛɛ-woo ma kɔri = We have come to learn Kpelle, Suakoko, Liberia : Cuttington University, 2009
• Theodore E. Leidenfrost & John S. McKay, Kpɛlɛɛ-woo-Kwii-woo Su-kula Kɔlɔ = Kpelle-English dictionary : with a grammar sketch and English-Kpelle, Moscow, Idaho: Palaverhut Press, 2007

for Loma [lom] it’s a bit difficult but there is:

• Deʋe Niinɛ (The New Testament in Loma), Monrovia: The Bible Society in Liberia, 1971 (2002 reprint)