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A syllabary written right to left.
Also known as: Mende script, Ki-ka-ku
The Sierra Leonean syllabary devised in the early twentieth century for the Mende language.
Writes the Mende language of Sierra Leone.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Named after its first three signs, in the same way the alphabet is named after alpha and beta — a naming habit that recurs independently wherever a sign list has a fixed order.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Largely displaced by Latin-script Mende and now used by very few writers, which places it among the scripts recorded here that are attested but not thriving.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A syllabary of around two hundred glyphs of curves and strokes, written right to left across the line.