Loma syllabary

The Loma syllabary was invented during the 1930s by Wido Zobo of Boneketa, Liberia. It was used among the Loma people, mainly for personal correspondence, during the 1930s and 1940s but is no longer used having been replaced by the Latin alphabet.

Loma is a Niger-Congo language spoken by approximately 141,800 people in Loffa County in the northwest of Liberia.

Notable features

Consists of 185 symbols.
Some syllables here several versions.
Written from left to right in horizontal lines.

Loma syllabary

Note

the Loma font used on this page was created by Jason Glavy and is available from: http://www.geocities.com/jglavy/african.html

Other syllabaries

Bamum, Blackfoot, Caroline Island Script, Carrier, Celtiberian, Cherokee, Cree, Cypriot, Hiragana, Iberian, Inuktitut, Katakana, Kpelle, Loma, Mende, Ndjuká, Nüshu, Ojibwe, Vai, Yi

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