forkedtongues | Oct. 25th, 2010

You're viewing

forkedtongues
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: light

Oct. 25th, 2010

eccentricyoruba

I wrote this post for Black Looks and I'm crossposting it here with some minor edits.

( More under the cut )

Speaking of modern African script, a friend of mine and blogger, Sugabelly is currently developing the Ndebe script for the Igbo language. When she first told me of her project, she asked for any help I (and several other of our mutual friends) could give because she wanted the script to be applicable to other Nigerian languages such as Yoruba. It has been amazing watching the script develop and I hope it catches on! Here is a video tutorial of the alphabet.

In conclusion,

unusualmusic drew my attention to Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa, now I really want to get that book.

Most Popular Tags

!30 days in 30 tongues - 5 uses
!admin - 3 uses
!original translation - 23 uses
!three weeks for dreamwidth - 3 uses
genre: poetry - 65 uses
genre: poetry: nazm - 3 uses
genre: poetry: waka - 2 uses
genre: prose - 3 uses
genre: songs - 17 uses
language: chinese - 15 uses
language: english - 16 uses
language: french - 6 uses
language: hebrew - 4 uses
language: hindi - 12 uses
language: hindi: khariboli - 3 uses
language: japanese - 5 uses
language: old english - 2 uses
language: persian - 8 uses
language: polish - 5 uses
language: russian - 2 uses
language: scottish gaelic - 2 uses
language: spanish - 9 uses
language: urdu - 7 uses
link: anthology - 3 uses
link: audio - 2 uses
link: blog post - 16 uses
link: essay - 4 uses
meta: colonialism - 3 uses
meta: imperialism - 5 uses
meta: learning - 3 uses
meta: literature - 5 uses
meta: nation language - 4 uses
poet: faiz ahmed faiz - 3 uses
poet: wisława szymborska - 3 uses
script: devanagari - 9 uses
script: hangul - 2 uses
script: hanzi - 12 uses
script: hebrew - 3 uses
script: perso-arabic - 6 uses
script: roman - 11 uses
script: tamil - 2 uses
theme: india - 2 uses
theme: language - 3 uses
theme: minority languages - 6 uses
theme: sufi - 3 uses
theme: translation - 16 uses
translation to: english - 69 uses
translation to: french - 3 uses
transliteration to: pinyin - 3 uses
transliteration to: roman script - 24 uses

Page Summary

eccentricyoruba - Ancient African Writing Systems

November 2018

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated Jul. 16th, 2025 08:25 pm

Powered by Dreamwidth Studios