Afaka is a defective script. Tone is phonemic but not written. Final consonants (the nasal [n]) are not written, but long vowels are, by adding a vowel letter. Prenasalized stops and voiced stops are written with the same letters, and … See more

This is apparently the first letter written by Afaka. It was copied into the Patili Molosi Buku c. 1917.
Oh my God, my Lord, I start with the words on the paper that you've given Afaka. But I'm deathly ill. How can I say it? I went to … See more

• A sample of Afaka script on a memorial in Surinam. The phrase is Odun m'sigasiye "I'm prepared to die for freedom", which in Afaka is O.DO.MI.SI.GA.SI.E
• The font used at Omniglot. The only available font is … See more

The origins of many of the letters are obscure, though several appear to be acrophonic rebuses, with many of these being symbols from … See more

Texts in Afaka's own hand show significant variation in the letters. A good number are rotated a quarter turn, and sometimes inverted as well; … See more

The Afaka script has been proposed for inclusion in the Unicode Standard. The codepoints U+16C80 through U+16CCF have been tentatively designated for the script. See more

1. ^ "Now here is the mystery: thirty-four of Afaka's signs are found in the script of the Vai tribe of Liberia." V.S. Naipaul, The Middle Passage (1962), p. 204 (Penguin ed.).
2. ^ In fact, Dubelaar and Pakosie imply that this letter also … See more