What 𞥟 means
It tells you the words ahead form a question.
Spanish punctuation uses a similar opening-and-closing pair.
How did Adlam's question mark develop?
Its outline changed, but its job stayed the same.
Brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry developed Adlam in Guinea in the late 1980s to give the Fulani language a more unified written form suited to its sounds. Their first handwritten Adlam lessons covered water hygiene and basic medical care.
Arabic influenced Adlam's right-to-left direction and the way its letters join. The Adlam question mark changed shape in 2019 but kept its opening role.
Formal punctuation in written Adlam.
It opens a question; it does not close one.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 𞥟 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 𞥟
- Search it as
- Adlam question mark · Fulani question mark · Pular question mark · Adlam punctuation · Fulani punctuation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𞥟\1E95FCodes and encoding1 code points
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