Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ)
Script details
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| Code | Medf |
| Script type | alphabet |
| Region | African |
| Status | Current |
| Direction | LTR |
| Baseline | bottom |
| Case | yes |
| White space | between words |
| Complex behaviors | contextual forms, optional ligatures |
| OpenType code | medf |
| ISO 15924 Number | 265 (left-to-right alphabetic) |
Script description
Section titled “Script description”Medefaidrin is a script created for the Medefaidrin language, an artificial language used by the Oberi Okaime church, an indigenous Christian church located in the Cross-River State of Nigeria.
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Presently, the religious community numbers 4000 members of whom up to 20 are fluent in the language. The script employs alphabetic cased forms similar to English, with special characters for the first-person pronoun and the conjunction ‘or’. A vigesimal numeral system is employed, with special contextual forms for 1, 2, and 3 when combined with other digits.
Languages that use this script
Section titled “Languages that use this script”| Language | Writing System Code | Writing System Status | SLDR/CLDR locale | Regional variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medefaidrin | dmf-Medf | in use | dmf-Medf-NG (Nigeria) |
Unicode status
Section titled “Unicode status”In The Unicode Standard, Medefaidrin (also called Oberi Okaime script) script implementation is discussed in Chapter 19:Africa
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Resources
Section titled “Resources”- ScriptSource page for Medefaidrin script - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems