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Dorothy A. Atabong
Dorothy A. Atabong ( Ayinke Dorothy Atabong) is a Cameroonian-Canadian actress, writer, and producer. She is best known for ''Sound of Tears'' for which she's won various awards including an Africa Movie Academy Awards, Africa Movie Academy Award in 2015. Career Atabong received positive reviews for theatre productions such as ''Wedding Band'', ''The Africa Trilogy'' by Volcano Theatre, a part of Luminato, Luminato Arts Festival and the Stratford Festival, The Canadian Stage Company and Studio 180 production of ''The Overwhelming''. Atabong published a romantic novel, ''The Princess of Kaya'', in 2002, which she later adapted into a screenplay. Her feature-length script, ''Daisy’s Heart'', won Best Low Budget Script at the 2011 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto. She also wrote, produced and starred in ''Sound of Tears'', a short film which premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film won the 2015 Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Short and also garnere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangwa Language
Yɛmba or Yemba, also Yémba or Bamiléké Dschang, is a major Bamileke language in West Region, Cameroon, West Region of Cameroon. It was approximately spoken by 500,000 or so people in the country in 2023. Despite originally being exclusively a spoken language, Yemba writing was developed by Maurice Tadadjeu (co-creator of the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages) and Steven Bird. Their team developed a small Yemba–French Dictionary covering French translations of over 3,000 Yemba words and expressions. The Mmuock dialect also has a proposed orthography. Phonology Consonants * Sounds /t͡ʃ ʃ ʒ/ are included as phonemes in some analyses. In most analyses, they are considered as allophones of /t͡s s z/. * Sounds [p l ɣ] are consonant alternation sounds between the following consonants /b d ɡ/. * Alternation sounds of /j w/ are labialized and palatalized sounds [ɡʲ ɡʷ]. * Graphemes of the alterations and allophones [t͡ʃ ʃ ʒ p l] are noted in the Yemba alpha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |