Avoiuli

Avoiuli (from Raga avoi 'talk about' and uli 'draw' or 'paint')[1] is a writing system used by the Turaga indigenous movement on Pentecost Island in Vanuatu.

It was devised by Chief Viraleo Boborenvanua over a 14-year period, based on designs found in traditional sand drawings, and intended as a native alternative to the Latin alphabet.

Like the Western orthography used to write Raga, it represents the velar nasal ng and prenasalised consonant ngg using modified forms of the letters n and g respectively, but represents the labiovelar consonants bw, mw and vw using digraphs.

Capital letters in Avoiuli are similar to lowercase but are enlarged and drawn around a + shaped 'frame', a feature also seen in traditional sand drawings.

There are letters to transliterate the rest of the basic Latin script, as well as additional vowels for other languages of Vanuatu.

A sign in Bislama written in boustrophedon Avoiuli script. The top-left reads, sab senta blong melenisian institiut blong tijim saen. filosofi. hiumaniti mo teknoloji. lisa vilij lolovini (Sap Centre of the Melanesian Institute for teaching science, philosophy, humanity and technology, Lisaa village, Central Pentecost).