Vai or VAI has several possible meanings: *

Vai people The Vai are Mandé peoples that live mostly in Liberia, with a small minority living in south-eastern Sierra Leone. The Vai are known for their indigenous writing system known as the Vai syllabary, developed in the 1820s by Momolu Duwalu Bukele an ...

Vai language The Vai language, also called Vy or Gallinas, is a Mande language spoken by the Vai people, roughly 104,000 in Liberia, and by smaller populations, some 15,500, in Sierra Leone. Writing system Vai is noteworthy for being one of the few African ...

Vai syllabary The Vai syllabary is a syllabic writing system devised for the Vai language by Momolu Duwalu Bukele of Jondu, in what is now Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia. Bukele is regarded within the Vai community, as well as by most scholars, as the s ...

Vai (Unicode block) Vai is a Unicode block containing characters of the Vai syllabary used for writing the Vai language of Sierra Leone and Liberia Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leo ...

Vai (Crete) Vai or more accurately Vaï (), Greek for "palm", is a region of east Crete between Cape Sidero and Cape Plaka, just south of the site of ancient Itanus but north of the villages that surround and are part of Palaikastro. Vai does not belong to ...

* Văi, a village in

Lupșa Lupșa (; ) is a commune located in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of 23 villages: Bârdești, Bârzan, Curmătură, După Deal, Geamăna, Hădărău, Holobani, Lazuri, Lunca, Lupșa, Mănăstire, Mărgaia, Mușca, Pârâu ...

Commune, Alba County, Romania * "Vai!", song by Alfa

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Van Andel Institute Van Andel Institute (VAI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit biomedical research and science education organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan. VAI was founded by Jay and Betty Van Andel in 1996. The institute's research focuses on cancer epigenetics and ...

, a biomedical research and science education organization in the United States * VAI,

Video Artists International Video Artists International (VAI), is an independent American CD and DVD-label specializing in classical music performances founded in 1983, and based in Pleasantville, NY. The company started as one of the first labels to release complete opera ...

, a classical music record label *

Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau Primetals Technologies Limited, is an engineering and plant construction company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with numerous locations worldwide. It serves clients in the metals industry, both the ferrous and the nonferrous metals sec ...

, later part of Siemens VAI Metals Technologies

People

Rosita Vai Rosita Angelica Gibbons Vai (born 4 June 1981) is a New Zealand singer who rose to musical fame as the winner of the second season of ''New Zealand Idol'' in 2005. Early life Rosita Gibbons was born in Wellington, brought up by her grandmother ...

(born 1981), New Zealand singer *

Steve Vai Steven Siro Vai ( ; born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a Transcription (music), transc ...

(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