Garay Alphabet
The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system " arryingAfrican sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye. This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels.'' The Garay alphabet can contribute to the rebirth of Africa, according to its inventor ''
Birane Hady Cissé, on '' fr.allafrica.com '' (April 21, 2009, accessed November 7, 2018). It is used in particular for the writing of the Wolof language, spoken mostly in , although it is more often written in the Latin alphabet. It is written from
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Wolof Language
Wolof (; Wolofal: ) is a language of Senegal, Mauritania, and the Gambia, and the native language of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring languages Serer and Fula, it belongs to the Senegambian branch of the Niger–Congo language family. Unlike most other languages of the Niger-Congo family, Wolof is not a tonal language. Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively by the Wolof people (40% of the population) but also by most other Senegalese as a second language. Wolof dialects vary geographically and between rural and urban areas. The principal dialect of Dakar, for instance, is an urban mixture of Wolof, French, and Arabic. ''Wolof'' is the standard spelling and may also refer to the Wolof ethnicity or culture. Variants include the older French , , , Gambian Wolof, etc., which now typically refers either to the Jolof Empire or to jollof rice, a common West African rice dish. Now-archaic forms include ''Volof'' and ''Olof''. English is belie ...
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Garay MB Lowercase
Garay may refer to: * Garay (surname) * Gəray, a municipality in Azerbaijan * Garay Department, Santa Fe Province, Argentina * Garay alphabet, a script used by a small minority to write the Wolof language of West Africa * Garay (ship), a type of warship used by Moro pirates in the Philippines * Leslie Andrew Garay (1924–2016), an American botanist, whose author abbreviation is Garay * Terminal de Transportación Pública Carlos Garay, a bus terminal in Ponce, Puerto Rico * Carlos J. Garay Villamil, a prominent coachman in Ponce, Puerto Rico See also * Garai (other) * Garai (surname) * House of Garai, an old nobility from the Kingdom of Hungary * Garai, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Garai, Biscay Garai (in Basque language, Basque and officially, in Spanish language, Spanish ''Garay'') is an e ...

Voice (phonetics)
Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants). Speech sounds can be described as either voiceless (otherwise known as ''unvoiced'') or voiced. The term, however, is used to refer to two separate concepts: *Voicing can refer to the ''articulatory process'' in which the vocal folds vibrate, its primary use in phonetics to describe phones, which are particular speech sounds. *It can also refer to a classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration but may not actually be voiced at the articulatory level. That is the term's primary use in phonology: to describe phonemes; while in phonetics its primary use is to describe phones. For example, voicing accounts for the difference between the pair of sounds associated with the English letters "s" and "z". The two sounds are transcribed as and to distinguish them from the English letters, which have several possible pronunciatio ...
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Garay NG Uppercase
Garay may refer to: * Garay (surname) * Gəray, a municipality in Azerbaijan * Garay Department, Santa Fe Province, Argentina * Garay alphabet, a script used by a small minority to write the Wolof language of West Africa * Garay (ship), a type of warship used by Moro pirates in the Philippines * Leslie Andrew Garay (1924–2016), an American botanist, whose author abbreviation is Garay * Terminal de Transportación Pública Carlos Garay, a bus terminal in Ponce, Puerto Rico * Carlos J. Garay Villamil, a prominent coachman in Ponce, Puerto Rico See also * Garai (other) * Garai (surname) * House of Garai, an old nobility from the Kingdom of Hungary * Garai, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran * Garai, Biscay Garai (in Basque language, Basque and officially, in Spanish language, Spanish ''Garay'') is an e ...