The Adlam script is a script used to write Fulani . The name Adlam is an acronym derived from the first four letters of the alphabet (A, D, L, M), standing for Alkule Dandayɗe Leñol Mulugol ( 𞤀𞤤𞤳𞤵𞤤𞤫 𞤁𞤢𞤲𞤣𞤢𞤴𞤯𞤫 𞤂𞤫𞤻𞤮𞤤 𞤃𞤵𞤤𞤵𞤺𞤮𞤤 ), which means "the alphabet that protects the peoples from vanishing". It is one of many indigenous scripts developed for specific languages in West Africa.
7-470: Adlam may refer to: Adlam alphabet , a writing system for the Fula languages Adlam (Unicode block) Adlam (name) , an English surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Adlam . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
14-543: Is used to derive additional consonants, mostly from Arabic, similar to e.g. s > š in Latin script. Usage of the consonant modifier: Usage of the dot to represent sounds borrowed from Arabic: Use of the dot with native letters: Unlike the Arabic script, Adlam digits go in the same direction (right to left) as letters, as in the N'Ko script . Adlam punctuation is like Spanish in that there are initial and final forms of
21-710: The alphabet. On computers running Microsoft Windows , the Adlam script was natively supported beginning with Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in May 2019. On macOS , the Adlam script was natively supported beginning with Ventura in 2022. While they were teenagers in the late 1980s, brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry devised the alphabetic script to transcribe the Fulani language. One method they used involved them closing their eyes and drawing lines. After looking at their drawn shapes, they would pick which ones would look
28-412: The character shapes were refined after practical usage. Adlam has both upper and lower cases. They are written from right to left. The letters are found either joined (akin to Arabic ) or separate. The joined form is commonly used in a cursive manner; however, separate or block forms are also used as primarily for educational content. Adlam has a number of diacritics . The 'consonant' modifier
35-522: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adlam&oldid=883030585 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adlam alphabet Adlam is supported in Google's Android and Chrome operating systems. There are also Android apps to send SMS in Adlam and to learn
42-509: The most to them like a good glyph for a letter, and associate it with whatever sound they felt it would represent. Another method involved is thinking of a sound, imagining the look of a glyph for that sound, and drawing said glyph. After several years of development it began to be widely adopted among Fulani communities, and is currently taught not only regionally in Guinea, Nigeria, and Liberia but even as far as Europe and North America. In 2019,
49-556: The question mark and exclamation mark, which are placed before and after the questioned or exclaimed clause or phrase. The final forms are taken from the Arabic script. The shape of the initial marks changed in 2019 as part of the efforts for Unicode standardization. The hyphen is used for word breaks, and there are both parentheses and double parentheses. The Adlam alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2016 with
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