• 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...
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  • simplified over time to eliminate that complexity. For example, the Vai syllabary originally had separate glyphs for syllables ending in a coda (doŋ)...
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    Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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)...
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  • spelled as Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ) was the inventor of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Liberia—one of several African languages to...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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    Ògúntósìn in 2016-2017 for the Yoruba language The Vai syllabary invented by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ for the Vai language in what is now Liberia during the early...
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    given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken syllables, while logographies assign symbols...
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  • Nwagu Aneke script (category Syllabary writing systems)
    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...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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    behaved as a syllabary for plosives and as an alphabet for the rest of consonants. This unique writing system has been called a semi-syllabary. In the syllabic...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • and Linear A (encoding a possible "Minoan language") the Cypro-Minoan syllabary Earlier symbols, such as the Jiahu symbols, Vinča symbols and the marks...
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    script developed from Akkadian cuneiform, Cretan hieroglyphs, the Cypriot syllabary, and Anatolian hieroglyphs. Then the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions were...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • 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...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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    also have been a degree of influence from the poorly understood Byblos syllabary.) It has been proposed in this regard that the two basic shapes in cuneiform...
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  • Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Osage 2006 CE Runic...
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