An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance … Continue reading An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
Category: African Languages
The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
One of Guinea’s foremost scholars passed away in March of this year at the age of 89 from COVID-19. Djibril … Continue reading The epic world of Djibril Tamsir Niane (1932-2021)
Advancing on the encoding of Loma
As I noted in my first post for the Digital Orientalist in 2018, two 1943 Loma texts remain to be fully translated … Continue reading Advancing on the encoding of Loma
Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
While proposals for Unicode inclusion of the Bété and Kpelle scripts are being developed, there has been some interest on … Continue reading Building tools with Bété, Mende, and Kpelle users
Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
As I noted in an earlier post, there was one 19th century prayer that had been published in Mende in Latin script … Continue reading Turning the page on a 19th century Mende prayer
Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
In a previous post, “Minding Mende”, I introduced the notebooks of Bokari Kanneh that had been digitized, and were awaiting … Continue reading Progress in the transcription of a Mende primary source
Lifting up Black voices
As I write this, it is the day before George Floyd’s funeral in Houston. It is hard to understate the … Continue reading Lifting up Black voices
The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic
Progress toward understanding the Meroitic script has been well underway since the foundational work of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, published in … Continue reading The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic
Learning about West African Ajami
The study of Ajami texts, those using the Arabic script and various modifications and extensions of it to represent languages … Continue reading Learning about West African Ajami
Keeping up with Coptic
The digital needs for the Coptic script are becoming better served in recent years, with the introduction of a standard … Continue reading Keeping up with Coptic
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