ISO 6438:1983, ''Documentation — African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange'', is an
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standard for an 8-bit
character encoding
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for
African language
The languages of Africa are divided into several major language families:
* Niger–Congo or perhaps Atlantic–Congo languages (includes Bantu and non-Bantu, and possibly Mande and others) are spoken in West, Central, Southeast and Southern A ...
s. It has had little use (such as being available through
UNIMARC
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Character set
* Prior to Unicode 7.0, mapped to .
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See also
*Africa Alphabet
The Africa Alphabet (also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet) was developed by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures in 1928, with the help of some Africans led by Diedrich Hermann Westermann, who served as d ...
*African reference alphabet
An African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO-organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed alphabet was revised in 1982. The conference recommended the use of single letters for a sound (that is, a phoneme) ...
*Dinka alphabet The Dinka alphabet is used by South Sudanese Dinka people. The written Dinka language is based on the ISO basic Latin alphabet, but with some added letters adapted from the International Phonetic Alphabet. The current orthography is derived from the ...
*Pan-Nigerian alphabet
The Pan-Nigerian alphabet is a set of 33 Latin letters standardised by the National Language Centre of Nigeria in the 1980s. It is intended to be sufficient to write all the languages of Nigeria without using digraphs.
History
Several hundred ...
* Standard Alphabet by Lepsius
Notes
References
"Coded Character Set for African Languages" (June 15, 1979)
ISO 6438:1983 "Documentation -- African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange""Application for Registration No.216, Extended African Latin alphabet coded character set for bibliographic information interchange" (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 N 3129; Date: 1998-07-06)
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Character sets
Writing systems of Africa