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AFRICA ALPHABET

Specialty Definition: Africa Alphabet

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The Africa Alphabet was developed 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists at the IAI in London. Its aim was to be able to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes.

See also: Standard Alphabet by Lepsius, African reference alphabet

Source

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

Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Africa Alphabet."

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