Mandombe

Script Details

Mandombe

Book page in Kikongo written in the Mandombe script

Unicode Chart

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Maps

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

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Alternate Names Mandombé
Type Abugida
Family None
Direction LTR
Contextual Forms No
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 151
Inventor David Wabeladio Payi
Earliest Location Kimbanguist Church
Earliest Date 1978 CE
Latest Date Present day use in the Kimbanguist Church

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Pasch, Helma 2008 Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Rovenchak, Andrij, Pasch, Helma, Riley, Charles, and Wazi, Nandefo Robert 2015 Preliminary proposal for encoding the Mandombe script in the SMP of the UCS (Revised) Unicode