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    The Mende Kikakui script is a syllabary used for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. The script was devised by Mohamed Turay (ca. 1850-1923),...
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    work. In 1921, Kisimi Kamara invented a syllabary for Mende he called Kikakui (𞠀𞠁𞠂 / ). The script achieved widespread use for a time, but has largely...
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    of Bo to teach the Mende to read and write with an alphabet based on the Latin script, and Kikakui's use declined. The Mende script has been described...
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    script. Thaana appeared around 1600 CE. Most modern scripts are LTR, but N'Ko (1949), Mende Kikakui (19th century), Adlam (1980s) and Hanifi Rohingya (1980s)...
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  • instead of the intended characters. Mende Kikakui is a Unicode block containing the Kikakui characters for writing the Mende language. The following Unicode-related...
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  • village tailor from Sierra Leone who was instrumental in promoting the Mende Kikakui script in the 1920s. Kisimi Kamara was born in 1890 in the village of Vaama...
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    (Unicode block) Bassa Vah (Unicode block) Medefaidrin (Unicode block) Mende Kikakui (Unicode block) NKo (Unicode block) Osmanya (Unicode block) Ottoman...
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    Man'yōgana Kikakui – Mende Kpelle – Kpelle Linear B – Mycenean Greek Lisu Bamboo script Loma – Loma Masaba – Bambara Nüshu – Chinese Nwagu Aneke script – Igbo...
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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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    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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    Medefaidrin of the Obɛri Ɔkaimɛ Church for Ibibio people. The Mende Ki-ka-ku or KiKaKui syllabary, invented by Kisimi Kamara in Sierra Leone in the early...
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  • vice versa, if Arabic is embedded in a left-to-right script such as English. Bidirectional script support is the capability of a computer system to correctly...
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  • systems nor ciphers of existing scripts. * Script in ongoing development. Constructed script List of writing systems ConScript Unicode Registry "Echo Station...
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  • (1E2C0–1E2FF) Nag Mundari (1E4D0–1E4FF) African scripts: Ethiopic Extended-B (1E7E0–1E7FF) Mende Kikakui (1E800–1E8DF) Adlam (1E900–1E95F) Symbols and numerals:...
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    handful of scripts—often primarily between a given script and Latin characters—not between a large number of scripts, and not with all of the scripts supported...
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  • to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line-breaking, script direction right-to-left or applying controls. Some "character properties"...
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    Noto fonts (category Latin-script typefaces)
    designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of October 2016[update], Noto fonts cover all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version...
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  • the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, that they are certainly not Arabic script characters or "right-to-left noncharacters", and are assigned there as a...
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  • the basic Latin alphabet. Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although...
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