Vai language

[2] Vai is noteworthy for being one of the few African languages to have a writing system that is not based on the Latin or Arabic script.

This Vai script is a syllabary invented by Momolu Duwalu Bukele around 1833, although dates as early as 1815 have been alleged.

Sigismund Wilhelm Koelle, a Sierra Leone agent of the Church Missionary Society of London.

ꕉꕡ ꖏ ꗳꕮꕊ ꗏ ꕪ ꗓ ꕉꖷ ꕉꖸ ꕘꕞ ꗪ.

aⁿɗa ko tɛmaː lɔ ka sɔ amũ anũ fala ɓɛ.

Two Vai speakers, recorded in Liberia .