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Africa Alphabet

The Africa Alphabet was developed 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann. He developed it with a group of Africanists[?] at the IAI[?] in London. Its aim was to be able to write all the African languages for practical and scientific purposes.

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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, Florian Coulmas, 1996, Blackwell, Oxford

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