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Title The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system / edited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Series Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71
Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71.
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface; List of Contributors; List of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Introduction; SECTION I. GENERAL PROBLEMS OF ARABIC-SCRIPT BASED TRADITIONS; P.T. Daniels -- The Type and Spread of Arabic Script; Meikal Mumin -- The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy; SECTION II. NORTH AFRICA; M. Kossmann and R. Elghamis -- Preliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger; L. Souag -- Writing 'Shelha' in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria; SECTION III. WEST AFRICA.
Dmitry Bondarev -- Old Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic Script: Phonology through the Graphic SystemA. Breedveld -- Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria); N. Dobronravin -- West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages); M.-E. Humery -- Fula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal and Mauritania): A Specific 'Restricted Literacy'; V. Vydrin -- Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages; V. Vydrin and G. Dumestre -- Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana.
A. Warren-Rothlin -- West African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political ContextSECTION IV. EAST AFRICA; B. Banafunzi and A. Vianello -- Chimi:ni in Arabic Script: Examples from Brava Poetry; X. Luffin -- Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography; C. Vierke -- Akhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script; SECTION V. SOUTH AFRICA; M. Haron -- Revisiting al-Qawl al-matin: A Socio-Linguistically Engineered Arabic-Afrikaans Text; K. Versteegh -- A Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884; Index.
Summary The Arabic script in Africa is a collection of sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African languages other than Arabic, discussing the (ethno- )historical, (socio- )linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of such writing traditions.
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Subject Arabic language -- Writing.
Arabic language -- Writing.
Arabic alphabet.
Arabic alphabet.
Africa -- Languages.
Africa.
Language and languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Mumin, Meikal.
Versteegh, Kees, 1961-
Other Form: Print version: Arabic script in Africa 9789004256798 (DLC) 2013031839 (OCoLC)857717699
ISBN 9789004256804 (electronic book)
9004256806 (electronic book)
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