Bété font
The Bété script is the alphabet of the Bétés , a people of the Ivory Coast .
It was created for the West African Bété language during the French colonial period in the 1950s by the developer Frédéric Bruly Bouabré , at that time still in the colony of French West Africa .
The font consists of 448 pictograms that depict everyday scenes and each stand for a monosyllabic word in the Bété language. Bouabré created writing in order to be able to write down the traditions of the Bété and to enable the Bété to literate in their own language, the Bété .
literature
- Philippe Bordas wrote a novel about Frédéric Bruly Bouabré and his writing invention : L'invention de l'écriture , Fayard, Paris 2010, ISBN 9782213635507 .