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...

suggesting that the Cherokee syllabary of North America provided a model for the design of the Vai syllabary in Liberia. The Vai syllabary emerged about 1832/33...

indigenous writing system known as the Vai syllabary, developed in the 1820s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and other Vai elders. Over the course of the 19th century...

script is a syllabary invented by Momolu Duwalu Bukele around 1833, although dates as early as 1815 have been alleged. The existence of Vai was reported...

simplified over time to eliminate that complexity. For example, the Vai syllabary originally had separate glyphs for syllables ending in a coda (doŋ)...

Look up Vai or vai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: Vai people Vai language Vai syllabary Vai (Unicode block)...

wide use today in West Africa, with the most frequently used being the Vai syllabary and the N'Ko script. There are also various notable indigenous African...

Duwalu Bukɛlɛ) was the proliferator of the Vai syllabary derived from the Poro Society, used for writing the Vai language of Liberia—one of several African...

Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia. The following Unicode-related...

Eastern region of Africa Southern Africa – Southernmost region of Africa Vai syllabary – Writing system West African Craton – One of the five cratons of the...

traditional Bambara iconography and shares some similarities with the Vai syllabary of Liberia and with Arabic-derived secret alphabets used in Hodh (now...

indigenous script of recent indigenous west African scripts, behind only the Vai syllabary and the N'Ko alphabet. A preliminary proposal has been made to include...

and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language") the Cypro-Minoan syllabary Earlier symbols, such as the Jiahu symbols or Vinča symbols, are believed...

African scripts invented in the 19th and 20th centuries such as the Vai syllabary because it has characters for sounds that are not in the Latin script...

Bambara Nüshu – Chinese Nwagu Aneke script – Igbo Vai – Vai Woleaian – Woleaian (a likely syllabary) Yi (modern) – various Yi/Lolo languages In most of...

Ivorian artist, invented the Bété syllabary in the mid-1950s. Momolu Duwalu Bukele - Liberian, invented Vai syllabary around 1833. John Byrom - British...

The Afaka script ( afaka sikifi) is a syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1910 for the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script...

first three consonant sounds, was inspired by the Arabic abjad, the Vai syllabary and certain indigenous Mende pictograms and cryptographic characters...

(Unicode block) Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation (Unicode block) Cypriot Syllabary (Unicode block) Cypro-Minoan (Unicode block) Early Dynastic Cuneiform...

as the N'Ko alphabet, used for Manding languages in Guinea, and the Vai syllabary, used in Liberia. Another affected language is Arabic (see below), in...

Before the development of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s, Cherokee was an oral language only. The Cherokee syllabary is a set of written symbols invented...

The Inuktitut script (titirausiq nutaaq) is commonly presented as a syllabary. The dots on the letters in the table mark long vowels; in the Latin transcription...

syllabics, are learned by children as syllabaries, and so are often called "syllabics". However, unlike true syllabaries, there is not an independent glyph...

Inuktitut syllabary used in Canada is based on the Cree syllabary devised by the missionary James Evans. The present form of the syllabary for Canadian...

used to represent concepts and aphorisms. The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ in Liberia...

the Cherokee syllabary created by Sequoyah. The Vah alphabet has been described as one which, "like the system long in use among the Vai, consists of...

represent pronunciation, unlike letters in an alphabet or syllabograms in a syllabary. Rather, the writing system is morphosyllabic: characters are one spoken...

Guinea, and Armenian alphabet. The syllabary of Vai also been compared to Hiragana and Katakana scripts also syllabary for Japanese language. However many...

recognizable but slightly irregular way, so that the system is laid out as a syllabary. The original form of the consonant was used when the vowel was ä (/ə/)...

following 161 blocks: Archaic Greek and other left-to-right scripts: Linear B Syllabary (10000–1007F) Linear B Ideograms (10080–100FF) Aegean Numbers (10100–1013F)...