Adlam script

The Adlam script is a script used to write Fulani. The name "Adlam" is an acronym derived from the first four letters of the alphabet (A, D, L, M), standing for "Alkule Dandayɗe Leñol Mulugol" () which means "the alphabet that protects the peoples from vanishing". It is one of many indigenous scripts developed for specific languages in West Africa.
Adlam is supported in Google's Android and Chrome operating systems. There are also Android apps to send SMS in Adlam and to learn the alphabet. On computers running Microsoft Windows, the Adlam script is natively supported beginning with Windows 10 version 1903, which was released in May 2019.
Development.
While teenagers in the late 1980s, brothers Ibrahima and Abdoulaye Barry devised the alphabetic script to transcribe the Fulani language. After several years of development it began to be widely adopted among Fulani communities, and is currently taught not only regionally in Guinea, Nigeria and Liberia but even as far as Europe and the United States.
Letters.
Adlam has both major and minor cases.
The letters are found either joined akin to Arabic or separately - the joined form is commonly used in a cursive manner, however separate or block forms are also used as primarily for educational content.
Diacritics.
Adlam has a number of diacritics. The 'consonant' modifier is used to derive additional consonants, mostly from Arabic, similar to e.g. s > š in Latin script.
Usage of the consonant modifier:
Usage of the dot to represent sounds borrowed from Arabic:
Use of the dot with native letters:
Digits.
Unlike in Arabic script, Adlam digits go in the same direction (right to left) as letters, as in the N'Ko script.
Punctuation.
Adlam punctuation is like Spanish in that there are initial and final forms of the question mark and exclamation point, which are placed before and after the questioned or exclaimed clause or phrase.
The hyphen is used for word breaks, and there are both parentheses and double parentheses.
Unicode.
The Adlam alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2016 with the release of version 9.0. The Unicode block for Adlam is U+1E900–U+1E95F: