Afaka

Script Details

Afaka

This is the first letter written by Afaka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afaka_syllabary

Unicode Chart

View Externally

Maps

Https://scriptsource.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=script_detail&key=Afak#:~:text=The%20Afaka%20script%20was%20a,script%20for%20a%20creole%20language.

Data

ISO 15924 Afak 439
Type Abugida
Direction LTR
Diacritics No
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 56
Inventor Afaka Atumisi
Earliest Location Suriname
Earliest Date 1910 CE
Latest Date Present
Ancestry
      • Afaka

Overview

This script is used by speakers of the Ndyuka language. the Ndyuka people are one of six Maroon peoples who live in the rainforests on the interior of the country. This script may no longer be in use because it lacks cultural significance to many Ndyuka people.

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1999 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 110-136 Blackwell Publishing