Writing systems of Africa

formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians

script used for writing the Coptic language and Nubian languages

Tifinagh (Tuareg Berber language: ; Neo-Tifinagh: ; Berber Latin alphabet: ; ) is a script used to write the Berber languages. Tifinagh is descended from the ancient Libyco-Berber alphabet. The traditional Tifinagh, sometimes called Tuareg Tifinagh, is still favored by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria, northeastern Mali, northern Niger, and northern Burkina Faso for writing the Tuareg languages. Neo-Tifinagh is an alphabet developed by the Berber Academy by adopting Tuareg Tifinagh for use for Kabyle; it has been since modified for use across North Africa.

ancient Egyptian script

script used for languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea

Hieratic (; ) is the name given to a cursive writing system used for Ancient Egyptian and the principal script used to write that language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus.

alphabetic script initially created by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a transcription system for Manding languages in Western Africa, now designed and developed to become a pan-African script covering their phonology

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writing system constructed in the 1830s for the Vai language in Liberia

script used for writing Somali

ancient variety of the Nubian language

historical Arabic-based script for Malagasy

bicameral alphabet invented in Guinea to write the Fulah language from right to left

version of the Latin alphabet used to write the Berber languages

unicameral writing system

set of 33 letters used to write Nigerian languages; in addition to the 24 letters of the English alphabet except QX, contains ƁƊƎẸỊƘỌṢỤ

writing system for languages of the Congo

set of letters designed as the basis for Latin alphabets for the languages of Africa

writing system

abjad writing system

syllabary writing system (right-to-left)

Arabic-derived script used to write African languages

Arabic-based alphabet for Berber languages

syllabic writing system, also called “shümom”, developed among the Bamoun people in Cameroon

set of 60 letters (in the latter edition), used for writing various African languages; initially proposed in 1978 and revised in 1982

form of the Arabic script for writing the Wolof language

writing system for some Southern Bantu languages

writing systems used in Africa

Script created for the Yoruba language

bicameral alphabetic script, also known with the name “Beria Giray Erfe” or “Zaghawa”, used since the 1950s for writing the Zaghawa (or Beria, Bera) language in Sudan and Chad

transcription system developed by Lepsius for Egyptian hieroglyphs and other African and Asian languages

Totality of orthographic rules for the languages ​​of Cameroon

writing system

writing system

400px|thumb|Lusona ideograph illustrating the story of the beginning of the world Sona () drawing is an ideographic tradition known across eastern Angola, northwestern Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is mainly practiced by the Chokwe and Luchazi peoples. These ideographs function as mnemonic devices to help remember proverbs, fables, games, riddles and animals, and to transmit knowledge.

bicameral right-to-left abjad, sometimes used to transcribe from the Wolof language

Arabic-based orthography for the Somali language

official Somali writing system

abugida

ISO standard

syllabary

The alphabet of a South Sudanese nilotic language

writing systems

writing system

Anjẹmi or Yoruba Ajami () refers to the tradition and practice of writing the Yoruba language using the Arabic script, as part of the tradition among Muslims of West Africa at large, referred to as the Ajami script. These include the orthography of various Fula dialects, Hausa, Wolof, and more.

alphabet of the Yoruba language