Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the
Bamum Palace is engaged in a variety of initiatives concerning the
Bamum script
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon) at the turn of the 19th century. They are notable for evolving from a pictographic system to a s ...
, including collecting and photographing threatened documents, translating and in some cases hand-copying documents, creating a fully usable
Bamum computer font for the inventory of documents, and creating a safe environment for the preservation and storage of documents.
See also
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Nji Oumarou Nchare
External links
Bamum Scripts and Archives Project
Writing systems of Africa
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