Bamum script

Bamum
A book in the sixth Bamum script, c. 1910.
Script type	Syllabary
Time period	c. 1896, moribund c. 1931, revived c. 2007
Direction	Left-to-right
Languages	Bamum
Related scripts
Child systems	Bagam?
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Bamu (435), ​Bamum
Unicode
Unicode alias	Bamum
Unicode range	U+A6A0–U+A6FF Bamum U+16800–U+16A3F Bamum Supplement
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The Bamum scripts are an evolutionary series of six scripts created for the Bamum language by Ibrahim Njoya, King of Bamum (now western Cameroon). They are notable for evolving from a pictographic system to a semi-syllabary in the space of fourteen 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. ^[1]