Medefaidrin

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Medefaidrin is the language and script of the Christian community in Nigeria. In Russian literature it also appears by the name Oberi-Okaime.

Both language and script appeared simultaneously around 1931. Rumour has it that a holy spirit turned up in front of one of the founders and taught him the language. And the writing came to his disciple in a dream. This secret knowledge was used in praying and they tried to teach it at school. The colonial authorities did not like the latter and the practice was cancelled. Nowadays the script is no longer used, and only a few old manuscripts have survived.

The structure of the Medefaidrin language resembles the local colloquial ibibio. And the alphabet was probably created under the Latin influence. It is constant-vocal. The direction of writing is from left to right. The script includes 32 letters, while the outlines of the uppercase differ significantly from the lowercase. Therefore, they are encoded as separate characters in Unicode.

You may encounter four punctuation marks in the script. Two of them are used as European dot and comma, the other two are unique. There are also 20 digits for the positional twenty number system.

Properties

Range	16E40–16E9F
Characters	96

List of Characters

Table of Characters

16D40–16D7F Kirat Rai 16F00–16F9F Miao

0: Basic Multilingual Plane

1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane

2: Supplementary Ideographic Plane

3: Tertiary Ideographic Plane

4-13: Not Used

14: Supplementary Special-purpose Plane

15: Supplementary Private Use Area Plane – A

16: Supplementary Private Use Area Plane – B

Medefaidrin

Properties

List of Characters

Uppercase letters

Lowercase letters

Digits

Numbers

Alternate digits

Punctuation

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