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[[File:Citizen-Kane-Welles-Breakfast (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Charlie F. Caine, the creator of the Caine orthography, pictured in 1961. Definitely no relation to [[w:Charles Foster Kane|Charles Foster Kane]]. No siree.]] | [[File:Citizen-Kane-Welles-Breakfast (cropped).jpg|thumb|200px|Charlie F. Caine, the creator of the Caine orthography, pictured in 1961. Definitely no relation to [[w:Charles Foster Kane|Charles Foster Kane]]. No siree.]] | ||
The '''Caine orthography''' ([[Bemé]]: ''Keyn romanisesh'') is a phonemic orthography for writing [[Bemé]] originally developed by '''Charlie F. Caine''', the US ambassador to the [[Poccasin Federation]] from 1961 to 1964, originally described in the | The '''Caine orthography''' ([[Bemé]]: ''Keyn romanisesh'') is a phonemic orthography for writing [[Bemé]] originally developed by '''Charlie F. Caine''', the US ambassador to the [[Poccasin Federation]] from 1961 to 1964, originally described in the ''Standard and Regular Romanisation of Poccasin Creole'' (1962). It is desginated as the official orthography for Bemé in the Poccasin Federation, and is also widely used in other Bemé-speaking regions, such as in [[Columbé|Saint Columban]]. It is based on the [[w:Latin alphabet|Latin alphabet]] and in its official form uses no [[w:Diacritic|diacritics]]. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||