King Ibrahim Njoya was 17th in dynasty of kings that ruled over the Bamum people in Cameroon. A brilliant intellectual and renaissance man, he invented an indigenous African writing system to document the history of his people. Today, @EndangeredAlpha is helping to revive it. 1/

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Advertising billboard for a gold merchant in Bantwal, Karnataka, written in Tigalari script. Historically used to write Sanskrit in southwest India, Tigalari is now increasingly used - as here - for the Tulu language, as a visible manifestation of Tulu culture and identity.

This is extraordinarily interesting. There's a long Chukchi tradition of carving hunting and fishing scenes on bone, including what may well be pictographic images - very possibly these served as the underlying inspiration for Tenevil's absolutely remarkable self-invented script.