Notable features
- Type of writing system: syllabary
- Direction of writing: variable
- Used to write: Woleaian, a language spoken in the Woleai group of Islands in Micronesia by about 1,600 people
Caroline Island Script

The script symbols and transliteration comes from Michael Everson's proposal to encode the Caroline Island Script in Unicode: http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/woleai.pdf (PDF, 123K)
Links
Caroline Island Script: a study site devoted to an indigenous script of the Pacific islandshttp://www.carolineislandscript.com
Some information about the Caroline Island Script
http://camba.ucsd.edu/phonoloblog/index.php/2005/07/01/caroline-islands-script/
http://www.proel.org/alfabetos/woleai.html
Woleaían - stories in Woleaian
http://www.prel.org/PALM/Woleaian/
Information about the Caroline Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Islands
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