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Vai

Mia Sogoba 11 December 2018
Categories: Ethnicities

The Vai, farmers and forest gatherers in Liberia and south-eastern Sierra Leone, are a Mande group known for their Vai syllabary, an indigenous syllabic writing system developed in the 1830s.

Synonyms:
Mande-tan, Vaï, Vay, Vehie, Vei, Vidri
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