{"id":8383,"date":"2013-03-18T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:37:42","slug":"iban-alphabet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"Iban alphabet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that almost all the world&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/\">writing systems<\/a> were on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\">Omniglot<\/a>, but today I discovered another one: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/iban.htm\">Iban alphabet<\/a>, which was invented in 1947 by Dunging Anak Gunggu. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/writing\/iban2.gif\" width=\"593\" height=\"842\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Iban alphabet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a partly syllabic, partly alphabetic script that never really caught on, mainly because there was no tradition of writing among the Iban-speaking community. During the past few years there have been efforts to revive it mainly by Dr Bromeley Philip at the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Sarawak, Malaysia &#8211; I&#8217;ve written to him to ask about the current situation.<\/p>\n<p>Iban is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, but I&#8217;m sure you knew that.<\/p>\n<p>For me it&#8217;s always exciting to discover a previously unknown (to me) writing system like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that almost all the world&#8217;s writing systems were on Omniglot, but today I discovered another one: the Iban alphabet, which was invented in 1947 by Dunging Anak Gunggu. It&#8217;s a partly syllabic, partly alphabetic script that never really caught on, mainly because there was no tradition of writing among the Iban-speaking community. During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}