id: "Bamu"
name: "Bamum"
family: "African"
summary: "Bamum is an African syllabary, written left-to-right (0.4 million users). Used in Cameroon. Developed communally at the end of the 19th century at the instigation of the Bamum King Njoya. Initially was logographic, later evolved into a syllabary. Bamum is being revived after decline since the 1930s."