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
Unicode Chart
Maps
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 |
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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 |
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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 |