Bamum
A book in the Bamum script c. 1910
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Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Bamun_Kingdom.gif "Bamun Kingdom" by Hafenreffer Museum of Brown University licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Data
| ISO 15924 | Bamu 435 |
|---|---|
| Type | Syllabic |
| Family | Bantoid Niger-Congo |
| Direction | LtR |
| Diacritics | Yes |
| Contextual Forms | Yes |
| Glyphs | 80 |
| Inventor | King Njoya |
| Earliest Location | Western Cameroon |
| Earliest Date | 20 c. |
| Latest Date | 1931 |
| Ancestry |
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Bibliography
| Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coulmas, Florian | 1999 | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 34-58 | Blackwell Publishing |
| Orosz, Kenneth J. | 2015 | Vol. 55, Cahier 217 (2015), Njoya's Alphabet: The sultan of Bamum and French Colonial Reactions to the "A ka u ku" Script, 45-66 | Cahiers d'Études Africaines |