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Afaka
Script type
Syllabary
Creator
Afáka Atumisi
Time period
Invented 1910
Direction
Varies
Languages
Ndyuka
ISO 15924
ISO 15924
Afak(439), Afaka
The Afaka script (afaka sikifi) is a syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1910 for the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script is named after its inventor, Afáka Atumisi. It continues to be used to write Ndyuka in the 21st century, but the literacy rate in the language for all scripts is under 10%.[citation needed]
Afaka is the only script in use that was designed specifically for a creole.
The Afaka script ( afaka sikifi) is a syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1910 for the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script...
written, but it is required for words such as ná ("isn't"). The syllabic Afaka script was devised for Ndyuka in 1908. A - [a] B - [b] D - [d] E - [e] F...
one of the only creole languages that uses its own script, called Afakasyllabary. Pidgin languages spoken in the Guianas include Panare Trade Spanish...
syllabary, graphemes represent syllables or moras. (The 19th-century term syllabics usually referred to abugidas rather than true syllabaries.) Afaka –...
Barry Proposed alphabet used to write the Fula language Afaka Afak 1910 Afáka Atumisi Syllabary used to write the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole...
Global Information
afaka sikifi) is a syllabary of 56 letters devised in 1910 for the Ndyuka language, an English-based creole of Suriname. The script is named after its inventor, Afáka Atumisi. It continues to be used to write Ndyuka in the 21st century, but the literacy rate in the language for all scripts is under 10%.[citation needed]