The Arabic script in Africa : studies in the use of a writing system /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mumin, Meikal, Versteegh, Kees, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Arabic
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; 71.
Temas:
Arabic language > Writing.
Arabic alphabet.
Écriture arabe.
Alphabet arabe.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Arabic.
Arabic alphabet
Arabic language > Writing
Language and languages
Arabische Schrift
Africa > Languages.
Afrique > Langues.
Africa
Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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