Learn Vai Alphabet

iOS app by Ethan Hartzell. Education · Ethan Hartzell

Store rating
5 / 5
Store rating count
2
Download price
Free to download
In-app purchases
Unknown
Version
1.0
Listing last refreshed
2026-09-08

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Store description excerpt

This app can help you get to know the Vai alphabet. Scroll through the letters and study their shapes and sounds. Practice tracing each one until you're familiar-- then quiz yourself on the letters! The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia. Bukele is regarded within the Vai community, as well as by most scholars, as the syllabary's inventor and chief promoter when it was first documented in the 1830s. Vai is a syllabic script written from left to right that represents CV syllables; a final nasal is written with the same glyph as the Vai syllabic nasal. Originally there were separate glyphs for syllables ending in a nasal, such as don, with a long vowel, such as soo, with a diphthong, such as bai, as well as bili and sɛli. However, these have been dropped from the modern script. There are 7 short vowel sounds. There are also nasal versions which are indicated with a ~ above the vowel.

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