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

• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Brill, , 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Disciplina: 492.7/11096
• Soggetto topico: Arabic language - Writing; Arabic alphabet
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Languages
• Altri autori: MuminMeikal VersteeghKees <1961->
• Note generali: 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.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- Introduction / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh -- The Type and Spread of Arabic Script / Peter T. Daniels -- The Arabic Script in Africa: Understudied Literacy / Meikal Mumin -- Preliminary Notes on Tuareg in Arabic Script from Niger / Maarten Kossmann and Ramada Elghamis -- Writing ‘Shelha’ in New Media: Emergent Non-Arabic Literacy in Southwestern Algeria / Lameen Souag -- Old Kanembu and Kanuri in Arabic script: Phonology through the graphic system / Dmitry Bondarev -- Influence of Arabic Poetry on the Composition and Dating of Fulfulde Jihad Poetry in Yola (Nigeria) / Anneke Breedveld -- West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages) / Nikolay Dobronravin -- Fula and the Ajami Writing System in the Haalpulaar Society of Fuuta Tooro (Senegal And Mauritania): A Specific ‘Restricted Literacy’ / Marie-Ève Humery -- Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages / Valentin Vydrin -- Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana / Valentin Vydrin and Gérard Dumestre -- West African Scripts and Arabic-Script Orthographies in Socio-Political Context / Andy Warren-Rothlin -- Chimi:ni in Arabic script: Examples from Brava poetry / Bana Banafunzi and Alessandra Vianello -- Swahili Documents from Congo (19th Century): Variation in Orthography / Xavier Luffin -- Akhi patia kalamu: Writing Swahili Poetry in Arabic Script / Clarissa Vierke -- Revisiting al-Qawl al-matīn: A sociolinguistically engineered Arabic-Afrikaans text / Muhammed Haron -- A Remarkable Document in Arabic-Afrikaans: The Election Pamphlet of 1884 / Kees Versteegh -- Index / Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Arabic script in Africa
• ISBN: 9789004256804; 9004256806
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910957606503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 71.