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Post by djoser-xyyman on Jul 26, 2018 9:28:45 GMT -5
I never knew that Mende have their own alphabet Quote: "Mende language is also taught in Sierra Leone schools and the Alphabet is closely identical to the English Alphabet. For example, the letter 'C' is flipped facing left and pronounced 'orh'; 'E' is written with broken edges ...."    |
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Post by kel on Jul 26, 2018 13:23:25 GMT -5
How old is the mende alphabet ?
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Post by anansi on Jul 28, 2018 0:47:58 GMT -5
How old is the mende alphabet ? From what I've dugged up ,that particular script is relatively recent, going back to 1850, and was derivative of the much older Vie script. However there are other script that came out of the Savannah region such as the Songhai script. |
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Post by zarahan on Jul 29, 2018 22:01:25 GMT -5
I never knew that Mende have their own alphabet Quote: "Mende language is also taught in Sierra Leone schools and the Alphabet is closely identical to the English Alphabet. For example, the letter 'C' is flipped facing left and pronounced 'orh'; 'E' is written with broken edges ...." Good roundup. Reminds us that some peoples in West Africa, like people in Europe and elsewhere, adapted their languages when they encountered alphabetic writing systems which of course were not invented in Europe, but partially in ancient Egypt, as Yale scholar John Darnell (2005) shows. Did the Mende have any pre-alphabetic scripts like the Nisibidi systems used in Nigeria before the coming of European and Arabic scripts (themselves derivative from elsewhere)? And where would the Mende geographical zone or core be? |
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