Garay alphabet Language Download PDF Watch Edit The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system "[marrying] African sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye. This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels.[1] It is used in particular for the writing of the Wolof language, spoken mostly in Senegal, although it is more often written in the Latin alphabet. It is written from right to left, and distinguishes letter case. Garay Garay (Système d'écriture).jpg Script type alphabet Creator Assane Faye Created 1961 Direction Right to left Languages Wolof This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A proposal to encode Garay in Unicode was submitted in 2012. References Edit ^ The Garay alphabet can contribute to the rebirth of Africa, according to its inventor , Birane Hady Cissé, on fr.allafrica.com (April 21, 2009, accessed November 7, 2018). Bibliography Edit Everson, Michael (April 26, 2012). Preliminary proposal for encoding the Garay script in the SMP of the UCS (PDF). Pandey, Anshuman (May 9, 2011). Introducing the Wolof Alphabet of Assane Faye (PDF). External links Edit Discover Garay, Movement of Teachers of African Languages in Senegal (MELAS). James, Ian (March 2012). "Garay script of Wolof". SkyKnowledge.com. "Wolof (Wollof)". Omniglot