Oberi Okaime script (Medefaidrin)
Escritura Oberi Okaime (medefaidrin)
- Date
- 1927 · confidence medium
- Place
- Ibiono Ibom, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
- Credited to
- Oberi Okaime Christ Church community, Ibibio
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
An alphabet of about 40 signs, with capitals and lowercase, created by an Ibibio religious movement for its liturgical language. It was added to Unicode in 2016.
The date is that of the church's founding; the surviving manuscripts date from the 1930s-1960s.
What it led to
- liturgical texts and hymns of the community
- encoding in Unicode as Medefaidrin
- an example of a script independently created in Africa
Built on
- Latin alphabet