Medefaidrin

The Medefaidrin script — also called Oberi Okaime — was created in Nigeria in the 1930s among a Christian religious community known as the Holy Ghost Movement (Oberi Okaime). It was designed primarily for writing spiritual texts, hymns, and prayers in the Ibibio and Efik languages of southeastern Nigeria, and may also have been used for other languages of the region. The script is an alphabet written from left to right with 26 letters; it was clearly inspired in part by the Roman alphabet but with distinctive invented letterforms. Medefaidrin also has its own system of digits. The script appears to have functioned mainly within the religious community and did not spread widely. It was added to Unicode in version 11.0 (2018) and is now primarily of historical and linguistic interest.