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A logographic script that became an alphabet.
Also known as: Zo script
The script devised in Myanmar in the early twentieth century for Tedim Chin, first as logographs and later as an alphabet.
Writes Tedim Chin, in an original logographic form and a later alphabetic one.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Reduced from over a thousand logographs to about fifty-seven letters within its creator's lifetime, so the logograph-to-alphabet transition is documented in one biography — the compression the Bamum script made in a reign, made here in a career.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Angular characters of straight strokes, in an original set of over a thousand logographs and a later reduced alphabetic set of around fifty-seven.
Both compressed from a large logographic repertoire toward a small phonetic one within a documented lifetime.