Mandombe script

The Mandombe font (French Mandombé ) is a Central African Abugida for the languages ​​Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Kituba and Swahili.

It was introduced in 1978 Wabeladio Pyai in Mbanza - Ngungu in the Bas-Congo province of the Congo.

The Mandombe Academy at CENA currently working to transcribe other Central and South African Bantu languages ​​in the font. The writing is taught in the schools of Kimbanguist Church in Angola, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The is also supported by the CENA ( Centre de l' ecriture Négro - Africaine ). In 2009, conferences were held in Liège, Brussels and Cologne, to promote the use and the introduction of Mandombe font.