Mende Notebook Pages

These are individual page images from MS2049 in Yale University Library's Manuscripts & Archives.  The digitized images are being uploaded here to facilitate their annotation and transcription, before they go live in FindIt.

Project Texts: 
Bokari Kanneh Notebooks
Bibliography: 

Dalby, David. 1967. “A survey of the indigenous scripts of Liberia and Sierra Leone: Vai, Mende, Loma, Kpelle and Bassa.”  African Language Studies, vol. 8. pp. 1-51.

Everson, Michael.  2010a.  Preliminary proposal for encoding the Mende script in the SMP of the UCS.  N3757.  http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3757.pdf

_______________.  2010b.  ​Proposal for encoding the Mende script in the SMP of the UCS.  N3863.  http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n3863.pdf

Everson, Michael and Konrad T. Tuchscherer.  2012.  ​Revised proposal for encoding the Mende script in the SMP of the UCS.  N4167.  http://unicode.org/wg2/docs/n4167.pdf

Milburn,  S. 1964. “Kisimi Kamara and the Mende script.” Sierra Leone Language Review​, vol. 3. pp. 20-23.

Tuchscherer, Konrad T.  1995.  “African script and scripture:  the history of the ​Kikakui ​(Mende) writing system for Bible translations​.”  African Languages and Cultures​, vol. 8:issue 2, pp. 169-188.

_______________.  1996.  The ​Kikakui (Mende) syllabary and number writing system:  descriptive, historical and ethnographic accounts of a West African tradition of writing​.  University of London Thesis.

 

 

Resources: 

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1E800.pdf

http://athinkra.github.io/mende-kikakui/tools/#?load=0x1e800-mende_kikakui.json