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- Woleai_script abstract "The Woleai or Caroline Island script, thought to have been a syllabary, was a partially Latin-based script indigenous to Woleai Atoll and nearby islands of Micronesia and used to write the Woleaian language until the mid 20th century. At the time the script was first noticed by Europeans, Micronesia was known as the Caroline Islands, whence the name Caroline Island script.The script has 99 known (C)V glyphs, which are not quite enough for a complete representation of the Woleaian language, even given the fact that consonant and vowel length are ignored. Approximately a fifth of them derive from the Latin alphabet. The question for historians is whether the Wolaians had proto-writing which crystallized into full-fledged writing under the influence of the Latin alphabet, or if they were exposed to the Latin alphabet without completely understanding it (see trans-cultural diffusion), and supplemented it either with existing signs from petroglyphs, tattoos, and the like, or by created new rebus or ad hoc symbols, until it was sufficient to fully express Woleaian.The script was written from left to right. Since length was ignored, one glyph stood for both ga and ka ([xa] and [kːa), and another for both la and na ([la], [na], and [nːa]). Some glyphs stood for longer syllables than just consonant-plus-vowel, such as bag, warr, tüt, moi, shrö, chroa, gkaa, etc. Not enough glyphs were recorded to write all Woleaian syllables this way, and it is not known if the script was fully standardized.".
- Woleai_script thumbnail Woleai_script.gif?width=300.
- Woleai_script wikiPageExternalLink caroline-islands-script.
- Woleai_script wikiPageExternalLink n3977.pdf.
- Woleai_script wikiPageExternalLink woleai.htm.
- Woleai_script wikiPageID "15172716".
- Woleai_script wikiPageRevisionID "604049362".
- Woleai_script hasPhotoCollection Woleai_script.
- Woleai_script iso "Wole".
- Woleai_script languages Woleaian_language.
- Woleai_script name "Woleai".
- Woleai_script sample "Woleai script.gif".
- Woleai_script time "c. 1910 to c. 1950".
- Woleai_script type "Syllabary".
- Woleai_script subject Category:Artificial_scripts.
- Woleai_script subject Category:Micronesia.
- Woleai_script subject Category:Syllabary_writing_systems.
- Woleai_script type Abstraction100002137.
- Woleai_script type Communication100033020.
- Woleai_script type Orthography106351202.
- Woleai_script type Writing106359877.
- Woleai_script type WrittenCommunication106349220.
- Woleai_script comment "The Woleai or Caroline Island script, thought to have been a syllabary, was a partially Latin-based script indigenous to Woleai Atoll and nearby islands of Micronesia and used to write the Woleaian language until the mid 20th century.".
- Woleai_script label "Woleai script".
- Woleai_script sameAs m.03hkpzt.
- Woleai_script sameAs Q6643710.
- Woleai_script sameAs Q6643710.
- Woleai_script sameAs Woleai_script.
- Woleai_script wasDerivedFrom Woleai_script?oldid=604049362.
- Woleai_script depiction Woleai_script.gif.
- Woleai_script isPrimaryTopicOf Woleai_script.
