The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system /
The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system /
Edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh.
- 1 online resource.
- Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71 .
- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 71. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Online, ISBN: 9789004353152. .
Most of the papers in the present volume are based on presentations at the TASIA (The Arabic Script in Africa-Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and Dynamics of a Writing System) workshop, which took place on April 6-7, 2010, at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter / Introduction / The Type and Spread of Arabic Script / The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy / Preliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger / Writing ‘Shelha’ in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria / Old Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic script: Phonology through the graphic system / Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria) / West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages) / Fula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal And Mauritania): A Specific ‘Restricted Literacy’ / Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages / Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana / West African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political Context / Chimi:ni in Arabic script: Examples from Brava poetry / Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography / Akhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script / Revisiting al-Qawl al-matīn: A sociolinguistically engineered Arabic-Afrikaans text / A Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884 / Index / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Peter T. Daniels -- Meikal Mumin -- Maarten Kossmann and Ramada Elghamis -- Lameen Souag -- Dmitry Bondarev -- Anneke Breedveld -- Nikolay Dobronravin -- Marie-Ève Humery -- Valentin Vydrin -- Valentin Vydrin and Gérard Dumestre -- Andy Warren-Rothlin -- Bana Banafunzi and Alessandra Vianello -- Xavier Luffin -- Clarissa Vierke -- Muhammed Haron -- Kees Versteegh -- Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh.
The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.
9789004256804
10.1163/9789004256804 DOI
2013031839
Arabic language--Writing.
Arabic alphabet.
Africa--Languages.
PJ6123 / .A73 2013
492.7/11096
Most of the papers in the present volume are based on presentations at the TASIA (The Arabic Script in Africa-Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and Dynamics of a Writing System) workshop, which took place on April 6-7, 2010, at the University of Cologne, Germany.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Front Matter / Introduction / The Type and Spread of Arabic Script / The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy / Preliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger / Writing ‘Shelha’ in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria / Old Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic script: Phonology through the graphic system / Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria) / West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages) / Fula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal And Mauritania): A Specific ‘Restricted Literacy’ / Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages / Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana / West African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political Context / Chimi:ni in Arabic script: Examples from Brava poetry / Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography / Akhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script / Revisiting al-Qawl al-matīn: A sociolinguistically engineered Arabic-Afrikaans text / A Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884 / Index / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Peter T. Daniels -- Meikal Mumin -- Maarten Kossmann and Ramada Elghamis -- Lameen Souag -- Dmitry Bondarev -- Anneke Breedveld -- Nikolay Dobronravin -- Marie-Ève Humery -- Valentin Vydrin -- Valentin Vydrin and Gérard Dumestre -- Andy Warren-Rothlin -- Bana Banafunzi and Alessandra Vianello -- Xavier Luffin -- Clarissa Vierke -- Muhammed Haron -- Kees Versteegh -- Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh.
The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions, which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North, West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary, (socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems, literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.
9789004256804
10.1163/9789004256804 DOI
2013031839
Arabic language--Writing.
Arabic alphabet.
Africa--Languages.
PJ6123 / .A73 2013
492.7/11096