Nkonya Spelling Rules

Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation, 1998. — 18 p.Nkonya language spelling rules (In English)This paper is written to present the findings of the Nkonya Orthography Committee. Previous versions of this paper were drafted by the GILLBT Nkonya Language Project and distributed to Nkonya opinion leaders. Their comments and suggestions were adapted into a working paper which formed the basis for deliberations by the Nkonya Orthography Committee. The committee members were selected by the chiefs of Nkonya. They reviewed the issues and made the decisions which are documented in this paper.
The word “orthography” refers the way to write a language. As its name implies the Nkonya Orthography Committee is concerned solely with how the Nkonya language is to be written. The goal of the committee is to provide a way of writing Nkonya which will allow people to easily read and write Nkonya.
The committee is not trying to say that any particular form of Nkonya is “pure”. If they choose certain forms or words for a unified orthography, they are not saying that these are better, they are only saying that these are easier for all Nkonyas to read.