Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinctEast Cushitic language spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region, Somalia. Categories: Stub | Regions of Somalia ... This article is in need of attention. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families. ... The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a language family with about 375 languages (SIL estimate) and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia (including some 200 million speakers of Arabic). ... The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. ... The East Cushitic languages comprise more than thirty languages belonging to the Cushitic family within the Afro-Asiatic phylum. ... ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family. ... ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages. ... ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone meaning sound, voice) is the study of sounds and the human voice. ... Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ... This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The East Cushitic languages comprise more than thirty languages belonging to the Cushitic family within the Afro-Asiatic phylum. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Categories: Stub | Regions of Somalia ...
References
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (2005). "Boon", Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Boon’s first novels—written immediately before and after the war—were formally conventional, despite the inclusion of some techniques taken from film (a lifelong enthusiasm for Boon) and a few colorful characters (transvestites and doomed artists) who seemed quite out of place in the miserabilist mode he’d chosen for his fiction.
Boon had originally planned on writing an epic, traditionally structured novel about the life of a girl growing up in the “grimy streets” of Aalst: about her hopes and fears, her adventures and tribulations.
Boon was illustrating his own version of the Tarot deck at the time, as well as reading Madame Blavatsky, and this might explain the strange incursion of pagan religions onto the glamorous world of movies and starlets that had always preoccupied Boon.
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