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    correctly. The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon)...
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    language is well known for its original script developed by King Njoya and his palace circle in the Kingdom of Bamum around 1895. Cameroonian musician Claude...
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  • Bamum, also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, or Bamoun, may refer to: The Bamum people The Bamum kingdom The Bamum language The Bamum script Bamum (Unicode block)...
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    The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Grassfields ethnic group located in now Cameroon. In 2018, the Bamum and Bamileke peoples...
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    Ibrahim Njoya (redirect from Njoya of Bamum)
    Sultan Ibrahim Njoya (Bamum: ꚩꚫꛑꚩꚳ ꚳ꛰ꛀꚧꚩꛂ, Iparəim Nʃuɔiya, formerly spelled in Bamum as 𖦊𖧏𖣙, and Germanicized as Njoja) c. 1860 – c. 1933 in Yaoundé...
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  • Bamum Supplement is a Unicode block containing the characters of the historic stage A-F of the Bamum script, used for writing the Bamum language of western...
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  • in wide use. It is reputedly based on the Bamum script, though the numerals show more resemblance to Bamum than the syllabograms do, and it does not appear...
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  • He invented the Bamum script so that his people could record Bamum's history. In 1910, Njoya had a school constructed where the script was taught. Germans...
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    museum with information on Ibrahim Njoya who invented a new language script, Bamum script, and the artificial language Shümom. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters...
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    = "k-an") rather than for consonants and vowels (kan = "k-a-n"). Bamum script – Bamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the...
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    son of Ibrahim Njoya, and he was educated in French, English, and the bamum script developed by his father. In 1931, in order to break the power of the...
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    famous of the Bamum kings, Ibrahim Njoya, who died in 1933 and who created a writing system at the end of the 19th century called Bamum script. Christraud...
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    Ibrahim Njoya created the Bamum script, or Shu Mom, for the Bamum language. It is taught in Cameroon today by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project. Germany...
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    Logogram (redirect from Logographic script)
    Linear B, Chinese characters, Maya script, Aztec script, Mixtec script, and the first five phases of the Bamum script. A peculiar system of logograms developed...
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  • U+A6F6 ꛶ BAMUM SEMICOLON – Bamum script U+FE14 ︔ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL SEMICOLON – determines orientation when wide-character scripts are written...
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  • Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support...
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  • work with the Bamum script in Cameroon" (PDF). "Provisional notes on cataloging in the A-ka-u-ku (Bamum) script, in the Shümom and Bamum languages | Yale...
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  • U+2726 White four-pointed star ✧ U+2727 Sparkles (emoji) ✨ U+2728 Square lozenge ("pillow") ⌑ U+2311 Bamum script (Phase D) shii[citation needed] U+16954...
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    (Unicode block) Pau Cin Hau (Unicode block) Adlam (Unicode block) Bamum (Unicode block) Bamum Supplement (Unicode block) Bassa Vah (Unicode block) Garay (Unicode...
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  • ISO 15924 (redirect from ISO script code)
    for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used...
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    languages. In the late 19th century, the Bamum script was developed by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya to write the Bamum (Shüpamom) language. Literacy in French...
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  • intellectual. Tuchscherer currently serves as the co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Cameroon and is associate professor of history...
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  • (巴姆), Tibetan-Chinese singer in the Mayu language Bamum script, with the ISO 15924 code Bamu, 435 Bamum (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists...
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  • write Southern Bantu languages. The Bamum script was developed largely by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya of the Kingdom of Bamum in Northwest Cameroon. It is a semi-syllabary...
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  • Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Foumban, Cameroon and Director of Cultural Affairs and Archivist at the Bamum Palace, Foumban....
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  • Fannin, it was also inspired by Tifinagh, Ancient South Arabian and Bamum script. In the comics, Wakanda is the foremost military power on Marvel Earth...
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  • – c. 1933), ruler of the Bamum people, in what is now western Cameroon credited with developing a semi-syllabic Bamum script which evolved from the rudimentary...
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    already evolving towards a quasi-alphabetic direction as well. The modern Bamum script is essentially CV-syllabic, but does not have enough glyphs for all the...
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    developed an alphabet for the Bamum language (the Shumon script), and established schools to teach it. The Islamisation of the Bamum occurred during his reign...
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