Oduduwa script

Odùduwà Alifabeeti Oduduwa
Script type	alphabet
Time period	2017–present
Direction	Right-to-left
Languages	Yoruba

The Oduduwa script was created in 2016 or 2017 by a Beninese Yoruba chief named Tolúlàṣẹ Ògúntósìn for the Yoruba language of Nigeria and Benin. Ògúntósìn says that the script was revealed to him by the Yoruba mythic ancestor Oduduwa in a series of dreams from 2011 to 2016.^[1] It has received support from other chiefs of Yorubaland in both countries as an adjunct to or possible replacement of the Latin script.^[1][2]

Yoruba has two Latin alphabets, one used in Nigeria and one in Benin.^[3] The Oduduwa script is also alphabetic, and is inspired by Latin orthography (e.g. /k͜p/ is written as a single letter, but /ɡ͜b/ as a digraph of the letters for /ɡ/ and /b/, paralleling the Nigerian Yoruba alphabet; similarly, the letters for ⟨ẹ, ọ, ṣ⟩ are derived from those for ⟨e, o, s⟩, and nasal vowels are written with the letter for ⟨n⟩, again as in the Nigerian Yoruba alphabet). Oduduwa differs from Latin in being written right-to-left.^[1]

The Oduduwa script is being taught to children at schools in Porto-Novo, Benin^[4] and in Ifẹ, Nigeria.^[5]