Bushi (Shibushi)
Bushi is written in the Latin script, spoken by about 58K people across 1 region.
Sample text
Ɓinadamu
An-fahitaŋa amba, fikuɓaliaŋa amba ɓinadamu
An-fahitaŋa amba, tsifahizaŋa ndreka fipuzisaŋa haki-l-adamì ro mikutsonga
Alphabet (64)
Auxiliary characters (20)
Combining marks (4)
Unicode blocks used
Where it's spoken
Mayotte
Notes
Gueunier 2016 and earlier work propose and use ƀ (with a middle stroke), đ (with a middle stroke, or ꟈ) and uses ĵ, n̂, n̈, ô, ŝ, ẑ as linguists from the Malagasy department of the Université d‘Antananarivo. Gueunier 2016 also uses tilde for nasalisation of vowels but . In 2020, the Département de Mayotte adopted a different alphabet consistent with the Shimaore alphabet, using ɓ, ɗ, ŋ (or gn), several digraphs, tilde accent for nasalisation of vowels, and with o, u instead of ô, u. The grave accent is typically used for indicating stress when irregular and necessary for disambiguation, like in Malagasy, but it’s not clear if it is combined with other diacritics in practice.