Article outline

• 1.Linguistic and orthographic background
  • 1.1Affiliation and location
  • 1.2Orthography development
  • 1.3Previous research
  • 1.4Typology
  • 1.5Consonants
  • 1.6Vowels
  • 1.7Tone
    • 1.7.1Tone orthography
    • 1.7.2Lexical tone patterns
    • 1.7.3Non-automatic downstep
    • 1.7.4Contour tones
    • 1.7.5Desyllabification of close vowels
    • 1.7.6Noun class proclitics
    • 1.7.7Nominal tone, devoicing and elision
    • 1.7.8H tone derivational verbs
    • 1.7.9Lexical tone
    • 1.7.10Grammatical tone
• 2.Literacy background
  • 2.1Literacy programs
  • 2.2Literature production
  • 2.3Pedagogical materials
    • 2.3.1Primers
      • 2.3.1.1Elip
      • 2.3.1.2Mmala
      • 2.3.1.3Yangben
    • 2.3.2Transition guides
      • 2.3.2.1Elip
      • 2.3.2.2Mmala
      • 2.3.2.3Yangben
• Notes