The Native
Language Written Literacy
Project
Restoring written language dignity for health equity and digital inclusion
About the project
The Native Language Written Literacy Project is a coalition-led initiative to make native characters—like Ɔ and ↄ—readily accessible across default mobile and desktop keyboards. Starting with Twi, we’re restoring written language skills for 90M+ speakers globally, especially those navigating healthcare systems in the diaspora. This is about more than orthography—it’s about participation, safety, and digital dignity.
90M+ speakers affected
Written language is critical in healthcare, education, and civic life
Current layouts exclude native characters by default
What we are building
• Lingoboards™: a mobile keyboard system for native tongues
• Twiboard: our Twi-specific prototype
• Mockups and layout proposals for CLDR and Unicode
• Coalition outreach with What Ifs® Tech