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Africa Alphabet




  type alphabet
  time 1928 -
  languages African Languages


The Africa Alphabet was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann . He developed it with a group of Africanists at the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (later the IAI ) in London . Its aim was to enable people to write all the African Languages for practical and scientific purposes without Diacritic s.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages, but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African Reference Alphabet .


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  • ''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems'', Florian Coulmas, 1996, Blackwell, Oxford