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Description: Adinkra Alphabet is a phonetic writing system derived from Adinkra symbols for the languages of Akan, Ewe, Ga and Dagbani. Adinkra Alphabet consist of 10 vowels and 32 consonants. There are no upper or lower case characters in Adinkra Alphabet. Each Adinkra Alphabet character also has a unique numerical value. Character C/c is a vowel marker, character X/x is a mathematical array marker. Nyame Dua character which is the last character is a number marker. Adinkra Alphabet character between two Nyame Dua characters is read as a number.
Title: Adinkra Alphabet
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