I guess we're all envious of Michael's adventures! Locked in LoC, wow! :-) On 2004.07.02, 01:50, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Found an amazingly bad African conscript called Mandombe. Searching with Google hints that it may a weebit more than a just con-script: There was at least one book using it (Mahouahoua Moïse, 2000) < http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kimbangu.net/interest.htm > and it has been around for some 30 years now, certainly still being promoted: http://www.fnla-angola.org/french/opinion_libre/jesus_lafricain.htm That said, I understand why Michael says it is amazingly bad -- for a script, that is. At http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kimbangu.net/nouvelle.htm one is informed that it «est une révélation mystique sous la dictée de Simon Kimbangu à Monsieur David Wabeladio Payi». Hm... Anyway, no clear indication on which language or languages is supposed to be served by this script -- though it seems to be aimed for Bantu languages, perhaps kiKongo (where "ombe" means "black"). -- ____. António MARTINS-Tuválkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| PT-1XXX-XXX LISBOA Não me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ só me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a água em todas as fontes |
