ADLaM Vowels
The five vowels and the sounds they carry.
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Alif (a)
a as in father
E (e)
e as in they (without the y-glide)
I (i)
ee as in see
O (o)
o as in go (without the w-glide)
U (u)
oo as in food
Did you know?
The ADLaM script was created in the late 1980s by two teenage brothers, Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry, to give the Fulfulde language a writing system of its own.
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