of times since 1968, with the most recent review in 1990. The writing system is a Latin-based alphabet and has 26 letters. It has three additional letter symbols which correspond to the IPA symbols. There are also eleven digraphs and two trigraphs. Vowel length is represented by doubling or tripling the vowel symbol, e.g. 'a', 'aa' and 'aaa'. Tones are not represented. Nasalisation is represented after oral consonants where it distinguishes between minimal pairs. The Ga alphabet is: Aa, Bb, Dd, Ee, Ɛɛ, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Ŋŋ, Oo, Ɔɔ, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Yy, Zz The following letters represent sounds which do not correspond with the same letter as the IPA symbol (e.g. B represents ): J j - Y y - Digraphs and trigraphs: Gb gb - Gw gw - Hw hw - Jw jw - Kp kp - Kw kw - Ny ny - Ŋm ŋm - Ŋw ŋw - (an allophone rather than a phoneme) Sh sh - Ts ts - Shw shw - Tsw tsw - See also Ga people Languages of Ghana Christian Jacob Protten Carl Christian Reindorf Johannes Zimmermann Footnotes References External links My First GaDangme Dictionary kasahorow Short tutorial on counting in the Ga language Young boy speaking about Ghanaian tribes in Ga language Ga–Dangme languages Languages of Ghana