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Front Matter
Adlam
Alphabet created by brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry of Guinea in 1989 for the Fula language.
Alphabet created by brothers Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry of Guinea in 1989 for the Fula language. ADLAM means "the alphabet that will protect the peoples from vanishing" in Fula. Used by ~40 million Fula across 12 West African nations; Microsoft and Google have added support. The brothers began creating it as young teenagers — one of the most successfully adopted modern indigenous scripts in Africa.
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The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Glyph evolution
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
우→좌 (RTL)
α
System
Alphabet
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Adlam Keyboard (Fula)
Script of the Fula people of West Africa. Created in the 1980s. Right-to-left.
𞤀
𞤁
𞤂
𞤃
𞤄
𞤅
𞤆
𞤇
𞤈
𞤉
𞤊
𞤋
𞤌
𞤍
𞤎
𞤏
𞤐
𞤑
𞤒
𞤓
𞤔
𞤕
𞤖
𞤗
𞤘
𞤙
𞤚
𞤛
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💡 Adlam serves ~40 million Fula speakers. 28-letter alphabet created by Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry.
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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