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Wouldn't Johannes VanderGraaff be just the most amazing name to have? More interesting than my current "John" that's for sure.
Australian, 20yo, 3rd year at the University of Melbourne, likes music (jazz, bach, more), language (etymology, grammar, words, ancient greek, french), laughing, science, atheism, thinking, politics, cricket, the greens.
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  • That is one really cool looking script.
nok-ind:

afrovisionary:

mandombe script from the congo region

It is based on the sacred shapes 5 and ㄹ, and intended for writing African languages such as the four national languages of the Congo, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili, though it does not have enough vowels to write Lingala fully. It is believed that research into the script will result in scientific discoveries.[1] It is taught in Kimbanguist church schools in Angola, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also promoted by the Kimbanguist Centre de l’Ecriture Négro-Africaine (CENA). The Mandombe Academy at CENA is currently working on transcribing other African languages in the script.
This script is a new design of development of modern african civilization. Several titles, she recommends the multiform evolution of sciences, on the basis of mechanics, of art, architecture, the letters, the geometry, etc… 
In fact, there are two principal stages of the Mandombe script, namely: to learn how to read and write, then to pass to Kimbangula, i.e. the aptitude to make discoveries by using Mandombe as bases work.
Developing the intelligence and the judgement and stimulating the creative spirit of negro-african, it will help Black Africa and its diaspora to be left of the limbs of the lapse of memory, the secular marginalisation and very complex of inferiority.
In short, the Mandombe script in this 21st century is an obvious seal of a new era for Africa and its diaspora.
Consequently, Mandombe is not only one tool of elimination of illiteracy, the revalorization of the cultural identity of the black man but also a revealing of another scientific comprehension of the African culture in order to bring the African knowledge to the large company of universal knowledge for the harmonious development of humanity.

    That is one really cool looking script.

    nok-ind:

    afrovisionary:

    mandombe script from the congo region

    It is based on the sacred shapes 5 and ㄹ, and intended for writing African languages such as the four national languages of the Congo, Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba and Swahili, though it does not have enough vowels to write Lingala fully. It is believed that research into the script will result in scientific discoveries.[1] It is taught in Kimbanguist church schools in Angola, the Republic of the Congo, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also promoted by the Kimbanguist Centre de l’Ecriture Négro-Africaine (CENA). The Mandombe Academy at CENA is currently working on transcribing other African languages in the script.

    This script is a new design of development of modern african civilization. 
    Several titles, she recommends the multiform evolution of sciences, on the basis of mechanics, of art, architecture, the letters, the geometry, etc…

    In fact, there are two principal stages of the Mandombe script, namely: to learn how to read and write, then to pass to Kimbangula, i.e. the aptitude to make discoveries by using Mandombe as bases work.

    Developing the intelligence and the judgement and stimulating the creative spirit of negro-african, it will help Black Africa and its diaspora to be left of the limbs of the lapse of memory, the secular marginalisation and very complex of inferiority.

    In short, the Mandombe script in this 21st century is an obvious seal of a new era for Africa and its diaspora.

    Consequently, Mandombe is not only one tool of elimination of illiteracy, the revalorization of the cultural identity of the black man but also a revealing of another scientific comprehension of the African culture in order to bring the African knowledge to the large company of universal knowledge for the harmonious development of humanity.

    (via bakethatlinguist)

    Tagged: language writing script mandombe congo

    Posted on February 3, 2012 via afrofuturist/afrovisionary with 55 notes

    Source: afrovisionary

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