Ditema tsa Dinoko

Ditema tsa Dinoko (Sotho pronunciation: [ditʼɪma t͜sʼa dinʊːkʼʊ]), also known as isiBheqe soHlamvu (Zulu pronunciation: [isibʱɛᵏǃʼɛ sɔɬaːɱb̪̊vʱu]), and sometimes known as Xiyinhlanharhu xa Mipfawulo or Xifungho xa Manungu in xiTsonga and Luṱhofunḓeraru lwa Mibvumo or Vhuga ha Madungo in tshiVenḓa , is a featural syllable-based writing system created for the siNtu languages (Southern Ntu Languages). It was developed from the preeminent ideographic traditions of Southern Africa, including litema mural art of Lesotho, the related isiNdebele tradition of ukugwala ("to write", "to draw", "to paint traditional ideographic mural art"), and other symbolic crafts, like the regional beadwork containing ideograms and morphograms, which in isiZulu tradition are called amabheqe. As of 2025, no proposal has been made to encode the script in Unicode.

The script is designed for the phonologies of the siNtu languages at large. It was created with the goal of creating a more linguistically efficient writing system, to remedy the slowness in reading the highly agglutinative languages of the region, due to numerous multigraphs used in their standard orthographies in Latin script. Languages written in the script include ones that have no standardised Latin orthography, such as Eastern Sotho languages like sePulana and the majority of the Tekela languages. A diacritic that indicates vowel nasality, known as ingungwanyana, is provided specifically for the Tekela languages. As with the Latin orthographies, there is no provision for tone, which can generally be inferred from context.