Wednesday, December 11, 2019

How a new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future


In the 1980s, two kids in Guinea in West Africa took out pens and paper and started drawing. They drew curves, straight lines, arches. They were constructing letters.


They wouldn’t have dreamed that the script they invented would change lives and open the door to literacy for millions of people around the world. Read about two brothers who created an alphabet to help keep their culture and language from dying out.

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