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245 04 The Arabic script in Africa :|bstudies in the use of a 
       writing system /|cedited by Meikal Mumin, Kees Versteegh. 
264  1 Boston :|bBrill,|c2013. 
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490 1  Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ;|v71 
500    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. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
505 8  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. 
505 8  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. 
520    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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650  0 Arabic alphabet.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
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650  7 Language and languages.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
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651  0 Africa|xLanguages.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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700 1  Versteegh, Kees,|d1961-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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