Mende Kikakui

The Mende Kikakui script is a used for writing the of Sierra Leone. Mende /ˈmÉ›ndi/ (MÉ›nde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. It is spoken by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande branch of the Nigerâ“Congo language family. Early systematic descriptions of Mende were by F. W. Migeod and Kenneth Crosby. The Mende Kikakui script is a syllabary used for writing the Mende language of Sierra Leone. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Mende Kikakui script. Home. News. Random Article. Install Wikiwand. Follow Us. Send a suggestion. Konrad Tuchscherer, African Script and Scripture: The History of the Kikakui (Mende) for Bible Translations," African Languages and Cultures, 8, 2 (1995), pp. 169-188. . External links. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/mende.htm. Kikakui â” is a syllabary used for writing the Mende language. History It was devised by Mohammed Turay (born ca. 1850), an Islamic scholar, at a town called Maka (Barri Chiefdom, southern Sierra Leone). Script: Mende Kikakui. The Mende Kikakui script has 213 characters. ISO 15924 code: Mend. There are 1 fonts that have a character in this range. 213 characters (100%) of the script is covered. 1 2 Next Showing 1 to 201 of 213 Results. Image. Browser. Mende Kikakui script was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0. The for Mende Kikakui is U+1E800â“U+1E8DF: Mende Kikakui[1][2] Official code chart (PDF). 0. 1.