Wolof

Script Details

Wolof

Board in the Garay Syllabary

By Ousseynou Diagne SECK - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74161805

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Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Wolof_language_map.svg "Wolof language map" by Mikima licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

Type Alphabet
Family Atlantic Niger-Congo
Direction RtL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 29-32
Inventor Assane Faye
Earliest Date 1960 CE
Latest Date Present

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Coulmas, Florian 1996 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 547-563 Blackwell Publishing
Pandey, Anshuman 2011 Individual contribution to the UTC, Introducing the Wolof Alphabet of Assane Faye, 1-4 Unicode Technical Committee