Chickasaw Basic App vs Learn Vai Alphabet Premium!

Chokma! The Chickasaw Nation presents Chickasaw Language Basic, a Chickasaw language learning application for all Apple mobile devices. Chickasaw Language Basic offers hundreds of Chickasaw words, phrases, songs and videos. Learn the Chickasaw language anytime, anywhere from actual Chickasaw speakers. Features:Hundreds of words and phrases organized by categories, including Alphabet, Greeting Phrases, Kid's Phrases, Daily Phrases and more. Includes four traditional hymns, and two videos of Chipota Chikashshanompoli (Children Speaking Chickasaw) Language Club Permission:Per the language in the originally executed purchase order dated 8/26/09, the Chickasaw Nation gives Thornton Media, Inc. the permission to help distribute the App in the iTunes store; the Chickasaw Nation retains ownership of the app and all Chickasaw recordings.

This app can help you get to know the Vai alphabet. Scroll through the letters and study their shapes and sounds. Practice tracing each one until you're familiar-- then quiz yourself on the letters! The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia. Bukele is regarded within the Vai community, as well as by most scholars, as the syllabary's inventor and chief promoter when it was first documented in the 1830s. Vai is a syllabic script written from left to right that represents CV syllables; a final nasal is written with the same glyph as the Vai syllabic nasal. Originally there were separate glyphs for syllables ending in a nasal, such as don, with a long vowel, such as soo, with a diphthong, such as bai, as well as bili and sɛli. However, these have been dropped from the modern script. There are 7 short vowel sounds. There are also nasal versions which are indicated with a ~ above the vowel.