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Set of scripts for the Bamum language of Cameroon
correctly. The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon)
Bamum_script
Benue–Congo language spoken in Cameroon
language is well known for its original script developed by King Njoya and his palace circle in the Kingdom of Bamum around 1895. Cameroonian musician Claude
Bamum_language
Topics referred to by the same term
Bamum, also spelled Bamoum, Bamun, or Bamoun, may refer to: The Bamum people The Bamum kingdom The Bamum language The Bamum script Bamum (Unicode block)
Bamum
Unicode character block
Bamum Supplement is a Unicode block containing the characters of the historic stage A-F of the Bamum script, used for writing the Bamum language of western
Bamum_Supplement
Mfon of the Bamum (r. 1886/7–1933)
Ibrahim Njoya (c. 1860–1933) was the seventeenth sultan of the Kingdom of Bamum, a monarchy in western Cameroon dating back to the fourteenth century. He
Ibrahim_Njoya
Grassfields ethnic group of Cameroon
merging. › The Bamum, sometimes called Bamoum, Bamun, Bamoun, or Mum, are a Grassfields ethnic group located in Cameroon. In 2018, the Bamum and Bamileke
Bamum_people
Unicode character block
Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters
Bamum_(Unicode_block)
Kingdom in Northwest Region of Cameroon
He invented the Bamum script so that his people could record Bamum's history. In 1910, Njoya had a school constructed where the script was taught. Germans
Kingdom_of_Bamum
Partially deciphered writing system
in wide use. It is reputedly based on the Bamum script, though the numerals show more resemblance to Bamum than the syllabograms do, and it does not appear
Bagam_script
Place in West, Cameroon
museum with information on Ibrahim Njoya who invented a new language script, Bamum script, and the artificial language Shümom. Wikimedia Commons has media
Foumban
= "k-an") rather than for consonants and vowels (kan = "k-a-n"). Bamum script – Bamum (a defective syllabary, with alphabetic principles used to fill the
List_of_writing_systems
Historic building in Foumban, Cameroon
famous of the Bamum kings, Ibrahim Njoya, who died in 1933 and who created a writing system at the end of the 19th century called Bamum script. Christraud
Foumban_Royal_Palace
Country in Central Africa
Ibrahim Njoya created the Bamum script, or Shu Mom, for the Bamum language. It is taught in Cameroon by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project. Germany
Cameroon
Punctuation mark (;)
U+A6F6 ꛶ BAMUM SEMICOLON – Bamum script U+FE14 ︔ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL SEMICOLON – determines orientation when wide-character scripts are written
Semicolon
Grapheme which represents a word or a morpheme
Linear B, Chinese characters, Maya script, Aztec script, Mixtec script, and the first five phases of the Bamum script. A peculiar system of logograms developed
Logogram
Artificial language created by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya
work with the Bamum script in Cameroon" (PDF). "Provisional notes on cataloging in the A-ka-u-ku (Bamum) script, in the Shümom and Bamum languages | Yale
Shümom_language
Cameroonian traditional ruler (1902–1992)
Mfon of the Bamum from 1933 to 1992. Njimoluh was the son of Ibrahim Njoya, and he was educated in French, English, and the Bamum script developed by
Seidou_Njimoluh_Njoya
Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Foumban, Cameroon and Director of Cultural Affairs and Archivist at the Bamum Palace, Foumban.
Nji_Oumarou_Nchare
Subset of characters in Unicode
Unicode, a script is a collection of letters and other written signs used to represent textual information in one or more writing systems. Some scripts support
Script_(Unicode)
(Unicode block) Pau Cin Hau (Unicode block) Adlam (Unicode block) Bamum (Unicode block) Bamum Supplement (Unicode block) Beria Erfe (Unicode block) Bassa Vah
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Topics referred to by the same term
(巴姆), Tibetan-Chinese singer in the Mayu language Bamum script, with the ISO 15924 code Bamu, 435 Bamum (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists
Bamu
write Southern Bantu languages. The Bamum script was developed largely by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya of the Kingdom of Bamum in Northwest Cameroon. It is a semi-syllabary
Writing_systems_of_Africa
languages. In the late 19th century, the Bamum script was developed by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya to write the Bamum (Shüpamom) language. Literacy in French
Languages_of_Cameroon
American academic
languages of Africa. Tuchscherer currently serves as the co-director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in Cameroon and is associate professor of history
Konrad_Tuchscherer
Raghunath Murmu – Indian, created Ol Chiki script in 1925. Ibrahim Njoya – King of Bamum (Cameroon), invented Bamum script c. 1910. Nurhaci (king), or possibly
List of creators of writing systems
List_of_creators_of_writing_systems
Defines two sets of codes for a number of writing systems
for the representation of names of scripts, is an international standard defining codes for writing systems or scripts (a "set of graphic characters used
ISO_15924
distances and collecting information from locals. The map used the native Bamum script to write down the names of towns and natural features. The earliest cartographic
Cartography_of_Africa
Fictional country from Marvel Comics
Fannin, it was also inspired by Tifinagh, Ancient South Arabian and Bamum script. In the comics, Wakanda is the foremost military power on Marvel Earth
Wakanda
– c. 1933), ruler of the Bamum people, in what is now western Cameroon credited with developing a semi-syllabic Bamum script which evolved from the rudimentary
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systems nor ciphers of existing scripts. * Script in ongoing development. Constructed script List of writing systems ConScript Unicode Registry "Echo Station
List_of_constructed_scripts
Writing system that behaves partly as an alphabet and partly as a syllabary
already evolving towards a quasi-alphabetic direction as well. The modern Bamum script is essentially CV-syllabic, but does not have enough glyphs for all the
Semi-syllabary
Text in Bamum script, 1910.
Literature_of_Cameroon
Region of Cameroon
developed an alphabet for the Bamum language (the Shumon script), and established schools to teach it. The Islamisation of the Bamum occurred during his reign
West_Region_(Cameroon)
Writing system used for the Sudanese language
script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Sundanese characters. Old Sundanese script (Sundanese:
Old_Sundanese_script
Pacific (ASAAP) African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK) Bamum Scripts and Archives Project Internet library sub-saharan Africa (ilissAfrica)
African_studies
Character encoding standard
handful of scripts—often primarily between a given script and Latin characters—not between a large number of scripts, and not with all of the scripts supported
Unicode
and evolution of writing: Insights from the new scripts of West Africa". Open Science Framework. "Bamum (Unicode block)" (PDF). Unicode Character Code
List_of_numeral_systems
Punctuation to signal the end of a sentence (.)
STOP U+A4FF ꓿ LISU PUNCTUATION FULL STOP U+A60E ꘎ VAI FULL STOP U+A6F3 ꛳ BAMUM FULL STOP U+FE12 ︒ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP
Full_stop
Continuous group of 65536 Unicode code points
(A4D0–A4FF) African scripts: Vai (A500–A63F) Other left-to-right alphabetic supplements: Cyrillic Extended-B (A640–A69F) African scripts: Bamum (A6A0–A6FF) Other
Plane_(Unicode)
Archaic script used in Java and Bali
script, Aksara Buda, or Gunung script is an archaic script. Based on its shape, the Buda Script still has a close relationship with the Kawi script.
Buda_script
Unicode code point property names and their uses
to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line-breaking, script direction right-to-left or applying controls. Some "character properties"
Unicode_character_property
Punctuation mark (,)
compatibility with the ARIB STD B24 character set. The comma in the Arabic script used by languages including Arabic, Urdu, and Persian, is "upside-down"
Comma
Marks to indicate pacing of written text
scribes adopted the distinctiones system while adapting it for minuscule script (so as to be more prominent) by using not differing height but rather a
Punctuation
Japanese kanji not in the lists of jōyō kanji
Sign languages ASLwrite SignWriting si5s Stokoe notation Syllabaries Afaka Bamum Bété Byblos Canadian Aboriginal Cherokee Cypriot Cypro-Minoan Ditema tsa
Hyōgai_kanji
Multilingual font family from Google
individual computer fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of November 2024[update], Noto covers
Noto_fonts
Named range of Unicode code points
the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, that they are certainly not Arabic script characters or "right-to-left noncharacters", and are assigned there as a
Unicode_block
is thought to have had 70 wives. 177 Sultan Ibrahim Njoya He was King of Bamum in Cameroon, lived 1860–1933, and is thought to have had 'around 600' wives
List of people with the most children
List_of_people_with_the_most_children
Avestan alphabet is a Zoroastrian liturgical script Balinese – ᬅᬓ᭄ᬱᬭᬩᬮᬶ Used in: Bali , Indonesia Bamum † – ꚶꛉ꛰꛲ꚫꛦꚳ Formerly used in: Western Cameroon
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Early form of the Frisian language
Singular Plural Nominative bām bāmar skip skipe word Accusative Genitive bāmes bāma skipes skipa wordes worda Dative bāme bāmum skipe skipum worde wordum
Old_Frisian
Names and aliases of Unicode characters
name, usually an error. There are 39 such aliases. For example, U+2118 ℘ SCRIPT CAPITAL P is actually a lowercase p, and so is given alias name ※ WEIERSTRASS
Unicode alias names and abbreviations
Unicode_alias_names_and_abbreviations
Korean academic (fl. 15th century)
Sign languages ASLwrite SignWriting si5s Stokoe notation Syllabaries Afaka Bamum Bété Byblos Canadian Aboriginal Cherokee Cypriot Cypro-Minoan Ditema tsa
Ch'oe_Malli
American-Irish type designer (born 1963)
involved in the encoding of many scripts in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards, including Avestan, Balinese, Bamum, Bassa Vah, Batak, Braille, Brāhmī
Michael_Everson
Computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard
Unicode resolved this issue. Fonts which support a wide range of Unicode scripts and Unicode symbols are sometimes referred to as "pan-Unicode fonts", although
Unicode_font
Study published in 1854 on African languages
Freetown, Sierra Leone. He transcribed the data using a uniform phonetic script. Koelle's transcriptions were not always accurate; for example, he persistently
Polyglotta_Africana
founder of the Mandara Kingdom (reigned c. 1500) Ngoungoure, queen of Bamum (reigned 1865) – her reign lasted 30 minutes Other female sultans also ruled
List_of_female_monarchs
one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin. Ibrahim Njoya – Bamum people religion; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity.
List_of_former_Muslims
including Basaa, Duala, Manenguba, Bikya, Bung, Fula, Kanuri, Ngumba, Yeni, Bamum, Bafia, Bakweri language and many others. Some also have fluency in the
List of multilingual countries and regions
List_of_multilingual_countries_and_regions
Cultural or religious practice
the Igbo people), and Islam (among the different Mandé peoples and the Bamum and the Bakossi people) in much of the continent. In orthodox Serer religion
Veneration_of_the_dead
Month of 1977
Among the rulers given authority were Seidou Njimoluh Njoya, Sultan of the Bamum people with a capital of Foumban; and Angwafo III, the Fon of Mankon with
July_1977
height: 1.75 m; Ethnological Museum of Berlin Royal mask; by artists of the Bamum people (Cameroon); before 1880; wood, copper, glass beads, raffia and shells;
History_of_art
Culture preserved through speech or song
social, and religious texts were transmitted orally. When the Bamums in Cameroon invented a script, the first to be written down was the royal chronicle and
Oral_tradition
BAMUM SCRIPT
BAMUM SCRIPT
Surname or Lastname
German
German : topographic name for someone who lived by a tree that was particularly noticeable in some way, from Middle High German, Old High German boum ‘tree’, or else a nickname for a particularly tall person.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Baum ‘tree’, or a short form of any of the many ornamental surnames containing this word as the final element, for example Feigenbaum ‘fig tree’ (see Feige) and Mandelbaum ‘almond tree’ (see Mandel).English : probably a variant spelling of Balm, a metonymic occupational name for a seller of spices and perfumes, Middle English, Old French basme, balme, ba(u)me ‘balm’, ‘ointment’ (see Balmer).
Boy/Male
Tamil
Vedhanth | வேதாநà¯à®¤
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Vedhanth | வேதாநà¯à®¤
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Boy/Male
Muslim
This was the name of a skilled kufic script writer who wrote copies of the Quran during the reign of Muslim
Girl/Female
Tamil
Script
Boy/Male
Hindu
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Boy/Male
Indian
This was the name of a skilled kufic script writer who wrote copies of the Quran during the reign of Muslim
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name, from Middle English holy ‘holy’ + oke ‘oak’, for someone who lived near an oak tree with religious associations. This would have been one which formed a marker on a parish boundary and which was a site for a reading from the Scriptures in the course of the annual ceremony of beating the bounds.English : habitational name from the village of Holy Oakes in Leicestershire, recorded in Domesday Book as Haliach, and no doubt deriving its name as above, from Old English hÄlig ‘holy’ + Äc ‘oak’.
Boy/Male
Hindu
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Girl/Female
Hindu
Script
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for a clerk or scribe, from Latin scriptor ‘writer’, ‘clerk’. The name has been altered from its original Latin form through association with the more familiar English word scripture ‘Bible’.
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Boy/Male
Arabic
Trusting
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Very Beautiful
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from Old English bēam ‘beam’, ‘post’, a term with various applications. It denoted the beam of a loom and was therefore in some cases a metonymic occupational name for a weaver. In others it was a topographic name for someone who lived by a post or tree, or by a footbridge made from a tree trunk.Americanized form of German Boehm, or sometimes of Baum.
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
Boy/Male
Tamil
Onkar is the first phrase in the mul Mantra meaning there is only one God, it is found in the gurmukhi script and is consequently also part of the Sikh morning prayer, Japji Sahib
Boy/Male
Tamil
The scriptures, Vedic method of self realization, Knower of the Vedas, One who knows all, Hindu philosophy or ultimate wisdom, King of all
BAMUM SCRIPT
BAMUM SCRIPT
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lamp
Boy/Male
Greek
From 'kosmos' meaning order. St Cosmas, patron saint of physicians, and his twin brother St...
Boy/Male
Tamil
King, Hindu God, God worshipped by the gods them selve
Boy/Male
Australian, Welsh
Evan's Son
Biblical
that scatters abroad, or demolishes, the fat
Girl/Female
Indian
Love
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Tamil
Humming; Buzzing of a Bee
Girl/Female
Tamil
Aware, Enlightened one
Girl/Female
Tamil
Kannagi | கநà¯à®¨à®¾à®•ீ
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
God of the Earth; King
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BAMUM SCRIPT
BAMUM SCRIPT
BAMUM SCRIPT
BAMUM SCRIPT
n.
A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
n.
One who adheres literally to the Scriptures.
n.
One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them.
a.
An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church.
n.
Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
pl.
of Scriptorium
n.
One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
n.
Quality of being scriptural.
a.
Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing; as, scriptory wills; a scriptory reed.
n.
The quality or state of being scriptural; literal adherence to the Scriptures.
n.
Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
a.
Of or pertaining to the Vulgate, or the old Latin version of the Scriptures.
n.
That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.
a.
Contained in the Scriptures; according to the Scriptures, or sacred oracles; biblical; as, a scriptural doctrine.
n.
A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures.
n.
A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
prep.
To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.
adv.
In a scriptural manner.
n.
A Scripturist.
n.
A translation; that which is rendered from another language; as, the Common, or Authorized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.