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 Numeric Code / Key | 265 (left-to-right alphabetic) |
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
| Language | Writing System Code | Writing System Status | SLDR/CLDR locale | Regional variants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medefaidrin | dmf-Medf | in use | dmf-Medf-NG (Nigeria) |
Unicode status
In The Unicode Standard, Medefaidrin (also called Oberi Okaime script) script implementation is discussed in Chapter 19:Africa
.
Resources
- ScriptSource page for Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ) - all about scripts, languages, and writing systems
- Wikipedia article on Medefaidrin (Oberi Okaime, Oberi Ɔkaimɛ)