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This system is similar to the Cree-Saulteaux Roman system, the most notable difference being the substitution of conventional letters of the alphabet for symbols taken from the International Phonetic Alphabet, which results in the use of sh instead of š and the use of double vowels to represent long vowels.
The latter produced the African Reference Alphabet. Various country-level standardizations have also been made or proposed, such as the Pan-Nigerian alphabet. A Berber Latin alphabet for northern Berber includes extended Latin characters and two Greek letters. Such discussions continue, especially on more local scales regarding cross-border ...
Sawveh – Western Guangxi (disputed; perhaps proto-writing) Olmec – Olmec civilization (possibly the oldest Mesoamerican script) Para-Lydian script – Unknown language of Asia Minor; script appears related to the Lydian alphabet. Phaistos Disc (a unique text, very possibly not writing) Proto-Elamite – Elam (nearly as old as Sumerian)
Grave of Solomana Kanté. The French at the bottom reads “Inventor of the N'Ko alphabet”. Kanté created N’Ko in response to erroneous beliefs that no indigenous African writing system existed, as well as to provide a better way to write Manding languages, which had for centuries been written predominantly in Ajami script, which was not perfectly suited to the tones unique to Mandé and ...
Cree syllabics were developed for Ojibwe by James Evans, a missionary in what is now Manitoba in the 1830s. Evans had originally adapted the Latin script to Ojibwe (see Evans system), but after learning of the success of the Cherokee syllabary, [additional citation(s) needed] he experimented with invented scripts based on his familiarity with shorthand and Devanagari.
The Western Cham people are mostly Muslim [9] and therefore prefer the Arabic script. The Eastern Cham are mostly Hindu and continued to use the Indic script. During French colonial times, both groups had to use the Latin alphabet. [citation needed] There are two varieties of the Cham script: Akhar Thrah (Eastern Cham) and Akhar Srak (Western ...
The word tifinagh (singular tafinəq < *ta-finəɣ-t) is thought by some scholars to be a Berberized feminine plural cognate or adaptation of the Latin word Punicus 'Punic, Phoenician' through the Berber feminine prefix ti-and the root √FNƔ < *√PNQ < Latin Punicus; thus tifinagh could possibly mean 'the Phoenician (letters)' [1] [12] [13] or 'the Punic 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. [1] [2] [3] 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.