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The Arabic letter ش also represents the Tamil letter ஷ, representing the sound and the Tamil letter ஶ representing the sound . For when this letter is geminated, i.e. ட்ட , some historic manuscripts used the letter dal with two dots underneath, the modified Arwi letter ڍ .
The script was devised by Mohamed Turay (ca. 1850-1923), an Islamic scholar, at a town called Maka (Barri Chiefdom, southern Sierra Leone) around 1917.His writing system, an abugida called 'Kikakui' after the first three consonant sounds, was inspired by the Arabic abjad, the Vai syllabary and certain indigenous Mende pictograms and cryptographic characters.
Its material was the source for a compendium of characters used for development of artificial intelligence, the Omniglot Challenge. [9] [10] The Omniglot compendium has been used widely since it was first released. [11] [12] [13] As of November 2024, the number of languages detailed on the site is over 2,100. [14]
Of the Central Atlas Tamazight speakers, 40–45% are monolingual, while the others use Arabic as a second language. [25] Monolingual speakers consist mostly of older generations and children. [ 17 ] Women are more likely to be monolingual than men, since they typically stay in the village while the men go to work in the cities. [ 36 ]
A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (originally published in German as Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart 'Arabic dictionary for the contemporary written language'), also published in English as The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, is a translation dictionary of modern written Arabic compiled by Hans Wehr. [1]
Boko (or bookoo) is a Latin-script alphabet used to write the Hausa language.The first boko alphabet was devised by Europeans in the early 19th century, [1] and developed in the early 20th century by the British and French colonial authorities.
Arabi Malayalam script (Malayalam: അറബി-മലയാളം, Arabi Malayalam: عَرَبِ مَلَیٰاۻَمْ), also known as Ponnani script, [1] [2] [3] is a writing system — a variant form of the Arabic script with special orthographic features — for writing Arabi Malayalam, a Dravidian language in southern India.
The Rohingya language was first written in the 19th century with a version of the Perso-Arabic script. In 1975, an orthographic Arabic script was developed and approved by the community leaders, based on the Urdu alphabet but with unique innovations to make the script suitable to Rohingya.