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and Ayizo. It has been used in mother-tongue education in specialized schools. Gbékoun script consists of 24 consonant letters and 9 vowel letters. There are tonic diacritics, decimal digits and number of punctuation marks.

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{{reflist Writing systems of Africa Gbe languages Constructed scripts Yoruba language