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Why West Africa keeps inventing writing systems
These dozens of modern African scripts are adding a brand new chapter to the history of writing Subscribe for more: Become my patron: Briefly Meet Adlam, N ko, Vai and over twenty more scripts that capture West African linguistic features and give new visual representation to native West African tongues. Topics covered: backstories of Adlam and N ko list of many other scripts examples of African scripts beyond West Africa prenasalized stops like ᵐb labiovelars like gb vowel length in Fula length and tone in N ko nasalization as an areal feature older visual codes like N sibidi and Adinkra sociolinguistics of script creation See the sources doc below for much more information. Credits Art, narration, animation and four pieces of music by Josh from NativLang Sources for claims made, plus credits for music, fonts, sfx:
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