Bamum Supplement is a
Unicode block containing the characters of the historic stage A-F of 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 se ...
, used for writing the
Bamum language of western Cameroon. The modern stage G characters, which include many characters used for stage A-F orthographies, are included in the
Bamum block.
Block
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Bamum Supplement block:
References
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Unicode blocks