I think I've written before that Africa is a continent of many new
alphabets. One I just recently learned of on the Yoruba language & ICT
board* is called FaYe, and was developed by Remi-Niyi Alaran.

See: Ijebu Drums blog, Tuesday, September 04, 2007, "The Yoruba FaYe
writing system" http://ijebudrums.blogspot.com/

Don

* http://www.quicktopic.com/15/H/KKgbRqJUAR8 message 317