01OVERVIEW
Front Matter
SCRIPT · PROFILE
Mende Kikakui
Syllabary created in 1921 by Kisimi Kamara in Sierra Leone — one of the few writing systems independently invented in Africa.
Syllabary created in 1921 by Kisimi Kamara in Sierra Leone — one of the few writing systems independently invented in Africa. Unusually written right-to-left, it was added to Unicode in 2016.
04SPECIMEN
The Letters
Signs · Unicode · TypesSample GlyphsClick to copy
Unicode
Range 1U+1E800–U+1E8DF
Total signs213
Unicode Blocks
Not in Unicode
No Unicode block data available for this script.
Glyph evolution
Form change over time
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06MECHANICS
Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
Written right to left.
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System
Syllabary
⌨
Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
Standard IME · input chart
Keyboard layout data not yet available.
07LINEAGE
The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Ancestors & descendants
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
08REACH