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This is a quick attempt to bring together info on writing systems in Africa. There already was a lot of info - all in individual articles - but no way to relate them to the common continental context. As with all new Wikipedia entries, this can use a lot of work, but I think the page - and the accompanying category - fill a need. -- A12n 00:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I miss the Punic alphabet. -- 84.20.17.84 16:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
It reads "There are various other writing systems native to West Africa [11] and Central Africa.[12]". However, source 12 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110609193734/http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Central_Africa.htm) only lists some Central African artwork. That's not a writing system! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doveofsymplegades ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I did not see any source for the Adinkra Nykea syllabary. However, Omniglot displays a separate Adinkra-based alphabet and links to a Facebook page promoting it, https://www.facebook.com/adinkraalphabet/posts/. Among other posts, they post what I presume are traditional Adinkra symbols, with Ghanian proverbs written below in their alphabet, in Latin, and translated into English. The Facebook page, in turn, linked recently to an Akan Twi dictionary with Akan words written in Adinkra alphabet and Latin, e.g. https://www.akandictionary.com/2021/04/16/sen/.
The Facebook page also links to https://www.adinkraalphabet.com/. The front page of that website currently shows the derivation of the letters by simplifying what appear to be traditional Adinkra symbols. (I don't have the knowledge to verify if any of the symbols on Facebook or elsewhere are the traditional Adinkra, except the symbol referring to God.) That website in turn refers to a book which is offered for sale here: https://www.adinkraalphabet.shop/product-page/adinkra-alphabet-fourth-edition and was announced (as the 4th edition) on Facebook August 14, 2021. 3rd edition was announced Nov 17, 2019.
The (1st edition?) book launch was annouced for Nov 26, 2018 in Adabraka. They refer to working on the alphabet since 2015 and posted Aug 23, 2020 "I submitted the final Adinkra Alphabet proposal to Unicode last week." In one post they state that the traditional Adinkra symbols are/were not an alphabet. The system promoted on these webpages is an alphabet, with 10 letters also used as base-10 numerals. Searching for "syllabary" and "nykea" found no results on any of these pages, and by cursory examination (where Latin transliterations are provided) the symbols are consistently used as letters, not syllables.
Since all these websites are evidently maintained by the person or group promoting this alphabet, I don't know whether they meet Wikipedia standards for reliable sources. I do think they clearly demonstrate this alphabet exists currently. I don't see an indication of how much it's used by other people besides the author. 2601:441:4400:1740:A58F:9116:857A:AB26 ( talk) 03:30, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Could an editor please add a paragraph about Taa (!Xoo)'s writing system? It shares some Latin letters, but has some borrowed from other African writing systems (primarily for the clicking consonants). There are not many resources with much information about Taa, so this may be difficult. 64.124.38.140 ( talk) 13:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
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This is a quick attempt to bring together info on writing systems in Africa. There already was a lot of info - all in individual articles - but no way to relate them to the common continental context. As with all new Wikipedia entries, this can use a lot of work, but I think the page - and the accompanying category - fill a need. -- A12n 00:08, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
I miss the Punic alphabet. -- 84.20.17.84 16:44, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
It reads "There are various other writing systems native to West Africa [11] and Central Africa.[12]". However, source 12 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20110609193734/http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Central_Africa.htm) only lists some Central African artwork. That's not a writing system! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doveofsymplegades ( talk • contribs) 20:44, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
I did not see any source for the Adinkra Nykea syllabary. However, Omniglot displays a separate Adinkra-based alphabet and links to a Facebook page promoting it, https://www.facebook.com/adinkraalphabet/posts/. Among other posts, they post what I presume are traditional Adinkra symbols, with Ghanian proverbs written below in their alphabet, in Latin, and translated into English. The Facebook page, in turn, linked recently to an Akan Twi dictionary with Akan words written in Adinkra alphabet and Latin, e.g. https://www.akandictionary.com/2021/04/16/sen/.
The Facebook page also links to https://www.adinkraalphabet.com/. The front page of that website currently shows the derivation of the letters by simplifying what appear to be traditional Adinkra symbols. (I don't have the knowledge to verify if any of the symbols on Facebook or elsewhere are the traditional Adinkra, except the symbol referring to God.) That website in turn refers to a book which is offered for sale here: https://www.adinkraalphabet.shop/product-page/adinkra-alphabet-fourth-edition and was announced (as the 4th edition) on Facebook August 14, 2021. 3rd edition was announced Nov 17, 2019.
The (1st edition?) book launch was annouced for Nov 26, 2018 in Adabraka. They refer to working on the alphabet since 2015 and posted Aug 23, 2020 "I submitted the final Adinkra Alphabet proposal to Unicode last week." In one post they state that the traditional Adinkra symbols are/were not an alphabet. The system promoted on these webpages is an alphabet, with 10 letters also used as base-10 numerals. Searching for "syllabary" and "nykea" found no results on any of these pages, and by cursory examination (where Latin transliterations are provided) the symbols are consistently used as letters, not syllables.
Since all these websites are evidently maintained by the person or group promoting this alphabet, I don't know whether they meet Wikipedia standards for reliable sources. I do think they clearly demonstrate this alphabet exists currently. I don't see an indication of how much it's used by other people besides the author. 2601:441:4400:1740:A58F:9116:857A:AB26 ( talk) 03:30, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
Could an editor please add a paragraph about Taa (!Xoo)'s writing system? It shares some Latin letters, but has some borrowed from other African writing systems (primarily for the clicking consonants). There are not many resources with much information about Taa, so this may be difficult. 64.124.38.140 ( talk) 13:51, 29 April 2024 (UTC)