Piers Kelly: The Otomaung Alphabet of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Talk #29 given at /gʁafematik/ 2020 Conference (online), on June 19th, 2020. This talk reports on a new writing system developed for by a separatist cultural movement on the island of Bougainville. I describe the features of the system, its ethnographic setting and political motivations, in the context of other comparable scripts invented in recent times.