Bahamas (syllabary)

The letter Baham (egap) is a syllabary with an insignificant set of ideograms used for the Mengak language, which is spoken by the Bahamian people (self-name Egap ), belonging to the Bamilek group of the Bantouid branch of the Benue-Congolese languages in Cameroon ( Bambuto region of the Western province ). Most likely it was created at the beginning of the XX century. in imitation of the Bamum script.

For the first time this letter was reported in 1917 by an English officer L.V. Malcolm, who said that the population of the Bahamas in Cameroon uses unusual signs for recordings. Upon closer examination, these signs resembled graphemes invented in the neighboring state of Bamum . According to local residents, they used to use their own letter, but when it died out, they began to use the signs of the Bamum people. According to a number of researchers, some similarity of signs to bugs with syllabograms of wai is random.

Despite the existing record of signs to bugs, of which there are about a hundred, at the moment no documents are found recorded by this writing.