Adlam
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Adlam alphabet was invented in 1989 in Guinea by two brothers, Abdoulaye and Ibrahima Barry, as a way of writing the Fula language. Adlam, also cased as ADLaM, is an acronym for Alkule Dandayɗe Lenyol Mulugol (alphabet that protects the peoples from vanishing),
There is a proposal to include Adlam in Unicode:
- http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2013/13191-n4488-adlam.pdf
- http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4628.pdf
ISO-15924
| Code | N° | English Name | Nom français | Property Value Alias | Date |
| Adlm | 166 | Adlam | adlam | 2014-11-15 |
Source: Codes for the representation of names of scripts / Codes pour la représentation des noms d’écritures, http://www.unicode.org/iso15924/iso15924-codes.html
Other references & links
- Adlam website http://www.windenjangen.org/
- Mattias Persson & Ian James, "Adlam alphabet" (Chart of letters assembled by Mattias Persson from information in the Unicode proposal (n4628.pdf)) http://www.skyknowledge.com/adlam.htm
- Script Source, http://scriptsource.org/scr/Adlm
- Wikipedia, "Fula alphabets" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_alphabets#Adlam_alphabet
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