- ISO 15924
Qa02- Family
- African
- Type
- alphabet
- Direction
- LTR (left-to-right)
- Baseline
- bottom
- Word separation
- unspecified
- Ligatures
- unspecified
- Status
- Current
- Unicode
- true
- Diacritics
- false
The Fula Ba script was created by Adama Ba of Mali, around 1963. It is one of two African alphabets used for writing the Fula languages spoken in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Chad, Sierra Leone, Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Central African Republic, Côte dIvoire, Ghana, Togo, Liberia, and Gabon. The second of these alphabets is Fula Dita. The Fula languages are more commonly written with the Latin or Arabic scripts (Ajami style) than with either of the two Fula alphabets. Of the two, Fula Dita has been used more widely than Fula Ba.
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