Vai Town
Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: * Vai people ** Vai language ** Vai syllabary ** Vai (Unicode block) * Vai (Crete) * Văi, a village in Lupșa Commune, Alba County, Romania Abbreviation * VAI, Video Artists International, a classical music record label * Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau, later part of Siemens VAI Metals Technologies People

* Rosita Vai (born 1981), New Zealand singer * Steve Vai (born 1960), guitarist ** Steve Vai's band ''Vai'' * Vai Sikahema (born 1962), American football player * Vai Taua (born 1988), American football player * Vai Toutai (born 1993), Australian Rugby League player * Vaï (born 1979), Moroccan-French Canadian rapper {{disambiguation, given name, surname Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Vai People
The Vai are a Mande-speaking ethnic group that live mostly in Liberia, with a small minority living in south-eastern Sierra Leone. The Vai are known for their indigenous Syllabary, syllabic writing system known as Vai syllabary, developed in the 1820s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele and other Vai elders. Over the course of the 19th century, literacy in the writing system became widespread. Its use declined over the 20th century, but modern computer technology may enable a revival. The Vai people speak the Vai language, which is of the Mande languages. The Sierra Leonean Vai are predominantly found in Pujehun District (around the Liberian border). Many Sierra Leonean villages that border Liberia are populated by the Vai. In total only about 1200 Vai live in Sierra Leone. History The earliest written documentation of the Vai is by Dutch merchants sometime in the first half of the 17th century, denoting a political group near Cape Mount. The Vai likely settled there as part of the M ...
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