This is a proposal to encode the Mende Kikakui script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This script was published in Unicode Standard version 7.0 in June 2014. Mende Kikakui is used to write the Mende language, which is spoken in Sierra Leone. The script was largely replaced by a Latin-based writing system in the 1940s. The Mende numbers were separately proposed, see: . Users should refer to the code charts for the finalized version, which is accessible from: .
This is a proposal to encode the historic characters of the Bamum script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This set of extensions, which appear in the Bamum Supplement block, was published in Unicode Standard version 6.0 in October 2010. The Bamum scripts developed through a series of phases. The characters in this proposal were used to write the Bamum language of the Cameroon in the earlier phases of the script. (The modern orthography uses characters in the main Bamum block and were proposed in .)
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