Garay | |
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Script type | alphabet
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Creator | Assane Faye |
Created | 1961 |
Direction | Right to left |
Languages | Wolof |
ISO 15924 | |
ISO 15924 | Gara (164), Garay |
The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system "[marrying] African sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye. This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels.[1] It is used in particular for the writing of the Wolof language, spoken mostly in Senegal, although it is more often written in the Latin alphabet and to a lesser extent in the Arabic (Wolofal) alphabet. It is written from right to left, and distinguishes letter case.
A proposal to encode Garay in Unicode was submitted in 2012, and it was included in Unicode 16.0.0.[2]
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