Re: Vowel "colors" and chromoglyhs (Re: Synaesthesia)
| From: | David Stokes <dstokes1@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 29, 2002, 5:13 |
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Danny Wier <dawier@H...
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/post?protectID=114166139009056209015112075221085237095006139057010149>>
writes:
>Now that I do remember it, there's a language in Africa (?) that uses a
>multi-colored writing system!
The Benin and Edo people of southern Nigeria have a chromatographic
writing system. I don't know much about it, but I have seen it on a website:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Edo.html
That is part of a whole site on African writing system which is pretty
interesting:
http://www.library.cornell.edu/africana/Writing_Systems/Welcome.html
David Stokes
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