Annang Proverbs New Perspectives: Annang Orthography

Published by Siene Books: a division of Siene Nigeria Enterprises

Abstract

Ekah (2008) submits that the orthography of a language is principally the system of spelling “made up of symbols consisting of glyphs and diacritics adopted in writing”. The Annang spelling system maintains a degree of consistency. By consistency it denotes that Annang words are spelt the way the words are pronounced. Ashby (2011) calls this phenomenon “phonemic spelling” and explains that it is a situation whereby there is a spelling-to-sound-rule. Annang words such as Ima (love), Ebot (goat), Inwang (farmland), ekom (greetings), etc. point to the one-to-one correspondence that exists between the Annang sounds and its spelling system.