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245 0 4 _aThe Arabic script in Africa :
_bstudies in the use of a writing system /
_cEdited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh.
263 _a1311--
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aStudies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;
_v71
500 _aMost 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tFront Matter /
_rMeikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh --
_tIntroduction /
_rMeikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh --
_tThe Type and Spread of Arabic Script /
_rPeter T. Daniels --
_tThe Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy /
_rMeikal Mumin --
_tPreliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger /
_rMaarten Kossmann and Ramada Elghamis --
_tWriting ‘Shelha’ in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria /
_rLameen Souag --
_tOld Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic script: Phonology through the graphic system /
_rDmitry Bondarev --
_tInfluence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria) /
_rAnneke Breedveld --
_tWest African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages) /
_rNikolay Dobronravin --
_tFula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal And Mauritania): A Specific ‘Restricted Literacy’ /
_rMarie-Ève Humery --
_tAjami Scripts for Mande Languages /
_rValentin Vydrin --
_tManding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana /
_rValentin Vydrin and Gérard Dumestre --
_tWest African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political Context /
_rAndy Warren-Rothlin --
_tChimi:ni in Arabic script: Examples from Brava poetry /
_rBana Banafunzi and Alessandra Vianello --
_tSwahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography /
_rXavier Luffin --
_tAkhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script /
_rClarissa Vierke --
_tRevisiting al-Qawl al-matīn: A sociolinguistically engineered Arabic-Afrikaans text /
_rMuhammed Haron --
_tA Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884 /
_rKees Versteegh --
_tIndex /
_rMeikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aArabic language
_xWriting.
650 0 _aArabic alphabet.
651 0 _aAfrica
_xLanguages.
700 1 _aMumin, Meikal.
700 1 _aVersteegh, Kees,
_d1961-
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014,
_z9789004256798
830 0 _aStudies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics
_v71.
830 0 _aStudies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Online, ISBN: 9789004353152.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004256804
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