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title = "Vowels and the {I}gala Language Resources",
author = "Momoh, Mahmud",
editor = "Mabuya, Rooweither and
Mthobela, Don and
Setaka, Mmasibidi and
Van Zaanen, Menno",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)",
month = may,
year = "2023",
address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.12",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.12",
pages = "106--114",
abstract = "The aim of this article is to provide some insight into the use of the diacritic orthography in the writing of the Igala Language corpus. The aim was to use a lexical approach in identifying some of the words inherent in the language. Examples with sentences and interpretation were also provided with footnotes illustrations to better expiate some of the words and examples that could not be reflected upon in the main body of the work. The article as a matter of fact combines up to seven diacritic forms in order to better tackle the oft en-counter problem of pronouncing words in texts written in foreign language with supporting indicators provided in the work to guide users on how to pronounce the words using the diacritic forms that were adopted for the sake of this work. A total of 30 vowels were identified (5 short vowels and 25 long vowels of different variety) plus 8 diphthongs.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Vowels and the Igala Language Resources](https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.12) (Momoh, RAIL 2023)
ACL
- Mahmud Momoh. 2023. Vowels and the Igala Language Resources. In Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), pages 106–114, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.