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Loma syllabary


Subject Linguistics

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631214816.1999.x


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Devised in the 1930s by Wido Zobo of Boneketa, Liberia, the Loma script spread to some extent among the Loma in the following decades, but it was largely limited to personal correspondence and is no longer used. The system is a syllabary consisting of some 185 freely invented signs of the CV type ( table 13 ). The direction of writing is from left to right. Reading Dalby 1967. Table 13 The Loma syllabary Source: Dalby 1967 ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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