Bété syllabary

The Bété script is the alphabet of the betes, a people of Ivory Coast.

It was created for the West African Bété language to the French colonial era in the 1950s by the developer Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, then still in the colony of French West Africa.

The font consists of 448 pictograms that represent scenes of everyday life and are each a one-syllable word of Bété language. Bouabré created the font in order to write down the traditions of the Bété can and to allow Bété literacy in their own language, the Bété.