On August 13-14, 2025, a community workshop was held at the Centre International de Recherche et de Documentation sur les Traditions et les Langues Africaines (CERDOTOLA) in Yaoundé for the development of an orthography of the Atɔmb language (Bantu A461 [ttf]; Atomb/Tuotomb/Boneck) as part of Lis Kerr’s FWO-MBAM project. The workshop was organised by Lis Kerr (BantUGent), Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso (CERDOTOLA), Gilbert Palemagna Korot (Atomb linguistic committee), and Justine Dihenou Djahappi (Université d’Ebolowa), with financial support from a small grant from the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and a Language Legacies grant from the Endangered Language Fund (ELF).
During the workshop, Atomb community members decided on an alphabet for their language based on discussion of contrastive sounds, with guidance from the linguist facilitators. The workshop ended with planning the next steps of the documentation and revitalisation project funded by FEL and ELF, with the community members inputting the first entries into the Living Dictionaries online dictionary platform based on their transcriptions in the new community alphabet.
