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The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili language. [ 1 ] Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa , Fula , and Wolof .
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Ajami (Arabic: عجمي , ʿajamī) or Ajamiyya (Arabic: عجمية , ʿajamiyyah), which comes from the Arabic root for 'foreign' or 'stranger', is an Arabic-derived script used for writing African languages, particularly Songhai, Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although many other languages are also written using the script, including Mooré, Pulaar, Wolof, and Yoruba.
Utenzi wa Shufaka (Swahili: "Poem of Mercifulness") is an utenzi (classical narrative poem) in Swahili literature. It is composed of 285 stanzas of four lines of eight-syllables each. The poet-narrator of utenzi offers details of his lineage but never identifies himself.
Qur’an verses with Shaykh Ali Hemed al-Buhriy's translation in Swahili-Arabic script. "This is a book with a commentary on the Holy Qurʾān in Mrima-Swahi". Before 1958. Sheikh Aliy Hemed Abdallah al-Buhriy (Hemedi bin Abdallah Buhriy, Hemedi b.
Swahili literature has been an object of research by many western scholars since the 19th century. There is a debate regarding objectivity as a few scholars tried to establish a canon of Swahili writing.
Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (c. early 1900s) Swahili is now written in the Latin alphabet. There are a few digraphs for native sounds, ch , sh , ng ' and ny ; q and x are not used, [ 66 ] c is not used apart from the digraph ch , unassimilated English loans and, occasionally, as a substitute for k in ...
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