• The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia...
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  • simplified over time to eliminate that complexity. For example, the Vai syllabary originally had separate glyphs for syllables ending in a coda (doŋ)...
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    Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly...
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  • script is a syllabary invented by Momolu Duwalu Bukele around 1833, although dates as early as 1815 have been alleged. The existence of Vai was reported...
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    indigenous writing system known as the Vai syllabary, developed in the 1820s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and other Vai elders. Over the course of the 19th century...
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  • Look up Vai or vai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: Vai people Vai language Vai syllabary Vai (Unicode block)...
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  • spelled as Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ) was the inventor of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Liberia—one of several African languages to...
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    Etruscan 8th c. BCE Latin 7th c. BCE Cherokee (syllabary; letter forms only) c. 1820 CE Vai (syllabary) c. 1832 CE Deseret 1854 CE Great Lakes Algonquian...
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    Ògúntósìn in 2016-2017 for the Yoruba language The Vai syllabary invented by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ for the Vai language in what is now Liberia during the early...
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    given language. Not all writing systems represent language in this way: a syllabary assigns symbols to spoken syllables, while logographies assign symbols...
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