A month ago I wrote about a new script, called Caytu, for the Wolof language of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania. In the continued upheaval of moving and resettling the operations of the Endangered Alphabets (a phrase that sounds far grander than the reality deserves) it has taken me longer than I hoped to actually […]
For the past couple of months, Charles Riley at Yale has been sending me proverbs in (mostly) endangered alphabets from West Africa. I’m hoping to set up a proper gallery for them shortly, including translations, but I couldn’t resist posting some hasty cell-phone pictures before driving down to Connecticut tomorrow. The wood is just that […]
