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The writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced.In many African societies, history generally used to be recorded orally despite most societies having developed a writing script, leading to them being termed "oral civilisations" in contrast to "literate civilisations".
The Garay alphabet was designed in 1961, as a transcription system "[marrying] African sociolinguistic characteristics" according to its inventor, Assane Faye.This alphabet has 25 consonants and 14 vowels. [1]
West African Muslim scholars, who were bilingual or multilingual [1] and constituted what is collectively a West African intelligentsia that shaped West African historiography, [3] composed the majority of West African manuscripts; most of the manuscripts were composed in the Ajami script and Arabic script. [1]
The Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (Filipino Film Critics) included Bayaning 3rd World on their list of the Ten Best Films of the Decade. In 2000, the Department of Education, Culture, and Sports (DECS), under Secretary Andrew Gonzalez , called it an innovative film and endorsed it to schools, teachers, and students for the "invaluable lessons ...
The defining feature of the tradition of Ajami script in Sub-Saharan Africa, is that whereas in Arabic (and many other languages whose script has been derived from Arabic), vowel diacritics are generally dropped unless an ambiguity needs to be clarified, vowel diacritics are always written.
ABS-CBN premiered the restored version on April 3, 2015, at 9:30PM as part of their Holy Week film presentation for Good Friday. According to Kantar Medita-TNS statistics, the showing attained a nationwide audience rating of 10.2%, lost to GMA Network's showing of 2012 drama film Mga Mumunting Lihim , which attained a 11.6% nationwide rating.
NKo (ߒߞߏ), also spelled N'Ko, is an alphabetic script devised by Solomana Kanté in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Manding languages of West Africa. [1] [2] The term NKo, which means I say in all Manding languages, is also used for the Manding literary standard written in the NKo script.
3 Days to Go is a 2019 South African Indian drama film written and directed by producer Bianca Isaac on her directorial debut. [1] The film stars Leeanda Reddy, Bollywood actress Lillete Dubey, Jailoshini Naidoo and Kajal Bagwandeen in the lead roles. [2] The film was set in Durban and had its theatrical release on 25 January 2019. [3] [4]