What ꛏ means
ꛏ represents the Bamum syllable “ni.”
It contributes one syllable to a word; the surrounding Bamum signs supply the word’s meaning.
Why was the Bamum script created?
It gave the Bamum language a local writing system.
The earliest documented phase begins around 1896, when King Ibrahim Njoya and collaborators at his court developed signs for writing Bamum. The script passed through several stages: its early pictographic or word-like signs were reduced, and by 1910 the modern a-ka-u-ku syllabic phase had taken shape.
Bamum writing served correspondence, history, law, medicine, maps, religious texts, schools, and printing. Its development drew on earlier Bamum stages and on Arabic and European writing models. Colonial suppression interrupted its use; revival work has continued since 2007, treating it as both a language tool and Bamum heritage.
A script-specific character for Bamum writing and language study.
Alone, ꛏ gives you one syllable, not the surrounding word.
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Who writes ꛏ
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIt marks a Bamum syllable; alone, it may not tell you the full message.
Questions people ask
1Why does ꛏ show as a square?
Your font may lack a Bamum glyph. The text can still contain ꛏ correctly; a font with Bamum coverage can display it.
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How to type or find ꛏ
- Search it as
- Bamum ni · bamun · bamoun · shumom · shupamem · shü-mom · a-ka-u-ku · Njoya script
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꛏ\A6CFCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.