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A script invented by two teenagers.
Also known as: Fulani script
The West African script created in 1989 to write Fulani, now encoded and taught in several countries.
Writes the Fulani language, which had previously been written in Arabic or Latin script.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Invented by Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry, then teenagers in Guinea, and carried by hand and by copying for two decades before it reached Unicode in 2016 — the most recent script in this catalogue to be created and adopted.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Has a bicameral distinction between capital and small letters, which is rare outside the European scripts and was a deliberate design choice rather than an inheritance.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A right-to-left alphabet of rounded connected letters with distinct capital and small forms, and its own set of digits.