
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
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
The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system … Continue reading Cataloging Ethiopian Materials
In 1961, El Hadji Assane Faye was inspired by listening to a radio speech by the president of newly independent … Continue reading Gearing up for Garay
I have never been to Liberia. I tried to get there once, in 2009, for the Liberian Studies Association conference … Continue reading Encountering the Vai script
In previous posts I have discussed the process of encoding West African scripts into the Unicode standard. The question that … Continue reading Of browsers, keyboards, and fonts, with a focus on certain West African scripts
Back in the 1980’s, as the story goes, two Fulani brothers growing up in Guinea took it upon themselves to … Continue reading The Outlook for ADLaM
A fair amount of source material in the Kikakui script of the Mende language of Sierra Leone has just been … Continue reading Minding Mende
One of the more curious African scripts around is one that I was introduced to by Joe Lauer, a librarian … Continue reading A close look at N’ko
For those interested in learning more about the history and use of the Kpelle language and script, there are a … Continue reading Paths to understanding Kpelle
I write this in memory of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, who called himself “Cheikh Nadro”, or “he who does not forget”. … Continue reading An Ivorian innovation: the Bété script