Mandombe

Book in the Mandombe script

The word Mandombe in the Mandombe script.

The Mandombe script ( Mandombé in French ) is a Central African Abugida for the languages Kikongo , Lingála , Tshiluba , Kituba and Swahili .

It was introduced in 1978 to Wabeladio Payi in Mbanza-Ngungu in the Bas-Congo Province of the Congo .

The Mandombe Academy at CENA is currently working on transcribing other Central and South African Bantu languages into script. Scripture is taught in schools of the Kimbangu Church in Angola , the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is also funded by the CENA ( Center de l'Ecriture Négro-Africaine ). In 2009, conferences were held in Liège, Brussels and Cologne to promote the use and introduction of the Mandombe script.

Web links

Commons : Mandombe - collection of images, videos and audio files

CENA (in French)
Mandombe script

Individual evidence

↑ Pasch, Helma. 2008. Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 191: 65-109.
↑ Unseth, Peter. 2011. Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization. In The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts , ed. By Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia García, pp. 23-32. New York: Oxford University Press.

[1] Pasch, Helma. 2008. Competing scripts: the introduction of the Roman alphabet in Africa. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 191: 65-109.

[2] Unseth, Peter. 2011. Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization. In The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts , ed. By Joshua A. Fishman and Ofelia García, pp. 23-32. New York: Oxford University Press.