The Vai language, also called Vy or Gallinas, is a Mande language spoken by the Vai people, roughly 104,000 in Liberia, and by smaller populations, some...
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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,...
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Look up Vai or vai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: Vai people Vai language Vai syllabary Vai (Unicode block)...
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Vai Raja Vai (transl. Place It King, Place It) is a 2015 Indian Tamil language black comedy crime thriller film written and directed by Aishwarya Dhanush...
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technology may enable a revival. The Vai people speak the Vai language, which is one of the Mande languages. The Sierra Leonean Vai are predominantly found in Pujehun...
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Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia. The following Unicode-related...
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Steven Siro Vai[better source needed] (/ˈvaɪ/; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner...
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Bambara, Kpelle, Jula (Dioula), Bozo, Mende, Susu, and Vai. There are around 60 to 75 languages spoken by 30 to 40 million people, chiefly in Burkina Faso...
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Sigismund Koelle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
he was asked to investigate a report that speakers of the Vy, Vei, or Vai language were using a script of their own invention. Koelle made a 7-week trip...
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vai muito além de uma coleção de regras e normas de como falar e escrever" [To know a language is really about separating correct from awry? Language...
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Adil Takhssait, better known by his stage names Vaï, also Mélo or Mélopsy, is a Canadian rap and hip hop musician of Moroccan origin. Adil Takhssait was...
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Vai or more accurately Vaï (Greek: Βάι), Greek for "palm," is a region of east Crete between Cape Sidero and Cape Plaka, just south of the site of ancient...
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studio album by guitarist Steve Vai, released on August 14, 2012 through Favored Nations Entertainment. It is Vai's first full-length studio album since...
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Steve Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter and producer. He started his career in 1980 playing with Frank Zappa and has since recorded and toured...
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Fordata (Vai Fordata, Vai Tnebar) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly...
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Vai Pandal (transl. Bombast) is a 1984 Indian Tamil-language comedy film directed by Rama Narayanan, starring Mohan and Urvashi. It was released on 16...
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Writing systems of Africa (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
Ògúntósìn in 2016-2017 for the Yoruba language The Vai syllabary invented by Mɔmɔlu Duwalu Bukɛlɛ for the Vai language in what is now Liberia during the early...
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University. While in the US, she collaborated on a dictionary of the Vai language and wrote her autobiography, though a legal battle ensued over the rights...
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proliferator of the Vai syllabary derived from the Poro Society, used for writing the Vai language of Liberia—one of several African languages to develop its...
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List of ISO 639-2 codes (category Articles containing Vai-language text)
ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in...
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History of writing (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
three different contexts in which locals learn to read and write the Vai language, English, and Arabic—practical skills, secular education, and religious...
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Vai Anitta (English: Go Anitta) is a biographical docu-series produced by Shots Studios and released on Netflix. The six-episode first season follows...
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females was 22,389. An estimated 60 percent of the population speaks the Vai language and 70 percent are Muslim. Government The Legislature of Liberia was...
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[ˈsuo̯mi] or suomen kieli [ˈsuo̯meŋ ˈkie̯li]) is a Finnic language of the Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland...
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The Vai–Kono languages, Vai and Kono, form a branch of the Mande languages spoken in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Extinct Dama is said to have been similar...
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"Vai Malandra" (transl. "Go Sassy Girl") is a song by Brazilian singer Anitta with fellow Brazilian singer Zaac and American rapper Maejor. The song features...
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Mandarin". Language Change in East Asia: 161–179. "Tiếng lóng trên các phương tiện truyền thông hiện nay". khoavanhoc-ngonngu.edu.vn. "Vãi là gì? Tại...
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cousin of Nayib Bukele Momolu Duwalu Bukele, Liberian inventor of the Vai language's writing system This page lists people with the surname Bukele. If an...
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Syllabary (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
systems provide katakana language conversion. Languages that use syllabic writing include Japanese, Cherokee, Vai, the Yi languages of eastern Asia, the English-based...
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Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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