Mandombe script
Silabario Mandombe
- Date
- 1978 · confidence high
- Place
- Mbanza-Ngungu, Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Credited to
- Wabeladio Payi
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Writing system based on sacred shapes revealed in a dream to Kimbanguist prophet Wabeladio Payi, designed to write Bantu languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo such as Kikongo; taught in Kimbanguist church schools.
What it led to
- literacy in local Bantu languages
- Kimbanguist cultural and religious affirmation
- digital encoding of the script (Unicode)
- teaching in schools across Angola, Congo and DR Congo