Vai
📍 Grand Cape Mount County👥 140,251 speakers
About the Vai people
The Vai people are internationally recognized for independently developing one of the few indigenous African writing systems, the Vai syllabary, in the 19th century.
Cultural note
The Vai syllabary, created around 1833, is one of only a handful of fully functional writing systems ever independently invented in human history.
Vai Words & Phrases
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