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1 online resource. |
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71
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Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Arabic language -- Writing.
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Arabic language -- Writing. |
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Arabic alphabet.
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Arabic alphabet. |
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Africa -- Languages.
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Africa. |
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Language and languages. |
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Mumin, Meikal.
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Versteegh, Kees, 1961-
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Print version: Arabic script in Africa 9789004256798 (DLC) 2013031839 (OCoLC)857717699 |
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9789004256804 (electronic book) |
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9004256806 (electronic book) |
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9789004256798 |
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9004256792 |
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