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Where We Work

The Endangered Alphabets Project has promoted or supported the following scripts and their communities of origin:

    • Mro, Marma, Chakma, Sylheti, and Tripura from Bangladesh and India
    • Meitei Mayek, Ol Chiki, Tolong Siki, Wancho, Tai Ahom, Sharada, Sora Sompeng, Sourashtra, Tangsa, Tulu, Chisoi, Warang Citi, Takri and Zo from India
    • Chu-Nom, Tai Dam, Tai Tham, Pahauh Hmong, and Eastern and Western Cham from Southeast Asia
    • Cherokee, Ojibwe, Osage and Abenaki from the United States
    • Cree and Inuit from Canada
    • Thaana from the Maldives
    • Ainu and Ryukyuan (Okinawan) from Japan
    • Mandombe from the Congo
    • Adinkra from Ghana
    • Tifinagh from the Amazigh communities of North Africa
    • Adlam, N’Ko, Bassa Vah, Wolof, Bamum and Vai from West Africa
    • Beria, Coptic, Sudanese, Somali Bantu, and Luo from East Africa
    • Ditema tsa Dinoko from Southern Africa
    • Assyrian, Syriac, Samaritan, Avestan and Mandaic from the Middle East
    • Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, Bugis, Batak, Lampung and Rejang from Indonesia
    • Hanifi Rohingya and Kayah Li from Myanmar
    • Manchu, Naxi, Nüshu, Sawndip, Yi and Sui from China
    • Kalmyk, from the Kalmyk Republic in Eastern Europe

To see where endangered alphabets are found, and where the Endangered Alphabets Project has worked, visit our Atlas of Endangered Alphabets.