1. Ge-ez Script , Ethiopia
The most well known and used African writing system. also known as Ethiopic, is a script used as an abugida (alphasyllabary) for several languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea. … In Amharic and Tigrinya, the script is often called fidäl (ፊደል), meaning “script” or “alphabet”.
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2. Tifinagh Script (Berber Script)
The Tifinagh alphabet is used to write the Berber languages spoken in North Africa; it is believed to be a form of the Ancient Berber script. It is widely used by the Tuareg, the principal inhabitants of the Saharan interior.
It is used and sometimes can even be seen in public spaces in Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Niger, Algeria and Mali.
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Tifinagh is also sometimes known by the name of the language or the people using it, for example Tuareg or Berber. It is also referred to as Neo-Tifinagh to distinguish it from the old Berber abjad, Tifinagh.
3. Bamun Script, Cameroon
The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts compiled for the Bamum language by King Njoya of Cameroon at the turn of the 19th century. They are notable for evolving from a pictographic system to a partially alphabetic syllabic script in the space of 14 years, from 1896 to 1910. Bamum type was cast in 1918, but the script fell into disuse around 1931. A project began around 2007 to revive the Bamum script
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4. Insibidi Script (Nigeria)
Close to Cameroon is the South East region of Nigeria where Insibidi Script originates.
Insibidi is an ideographic script that it includes logographic elements. The symbols used are at several centuries old and early forms appeared on excavated pottery as well ceramic stools and headrests from the Calabar region, Nigeria.
The origin of nsibidi is most commonly attributed to the Ejagham people of the northern Cross River region, mostly because colonial administrators found the largest and most diverse nsibidi among them. Nsibidi spread throughout the region over time and mixed with other cultures and art forms.
Nsibidi was the inspiration for the Wakandan writing system shown in the 2018 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther.
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5. Egyptian Hieroglyphs
The ancient Egypt writing system
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6. Dogon Language Script
The Dogon People of West Africa.
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The Dogon people can be found in southeastern Mali and northwestern Burkina Faso, and South of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region.
They have had a system of signs which ran into the thousands, including "their own systems of astronomy and calendrical measurements, methods of calculation and extensive anatomical and physiological knowledge, as well as a systematic pharmacopoeia. Their Native religion embraced many aspects of nature, which are linked to other African Traditional Religions. Dogon traditional religion incorporates details about extrasolar astronomical bodies that could not have been discerned from naked-eye observation. This idea has entered the New Age and ancient astronaut literature.
The Dogons use ideograms to teach their culture and religion. These ideograms are taught to their children and this has been the case further back before colonization. These ideograms convey concepts, ideas and meanings.