Talk:Fula orthographies

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I've been thinking for a while that an article like this was needed. In part it is helpful to access such info in one place and be able to compare it. What I've just cobbled together is very incomplete but hopefully the formof it makes sense. Several points:

• I think the background is okay, but could be improved.
• The woefully short stub section on rules of writing Fula needs more general description. I don't have access to books that would enable me to add more.
• The attempt to show the Latin-based orthographies by country (which is the level at which these are determined, not the variant language or dialect forms) is incomplete and probably inaccurate on some specifics.
• The country-by-country subsections could also be used to list specific differences in rules for writing (can't think of any offhand, but there may well be some)
• The section on Ajami orthographies could include a lot of interesting info from various sources and perhaps lead to a separate article (note that I gave this article both the Latin-derived and Arabic-derived categories)
• I have seen a description of a book in Pular written in N'Ko script. No idea if that is the only one or if there are people beginning to use this more widely. --A12n (talk) 23:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)