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In Ajami script, nūn (ن) is used all the time, reflecting grammatical consistency. An example being mbazi نْبَازِ (beans). [4] [2] Aspirated as opposed to non-aspirated consonants are also marked in Swahili Ajami, with a "two-eyed" hāʾ (ھ) similar to what has been done in the Urdu alphabet. This is not indicated in Swahili Roman ...
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.
These manuscripts are among the most well documented instances of Ajami literature in the Horn of Africa. The Swahili Ajami literature extends as far back as the Islamiziation of the Swahili coast. Though, beginning in the 20th century, a systematic process of "Swahilization" of the Arabic script has been under way by Swahili scribes and scholars.
Anjẹmi or Yoruba Ajami (أَنْجَِمِ ) refers to the tradition and practice of writing the Yoruba language using the Arabic script, as part of the tradition among Muslims of West Africa at large, referred to as the Ajami script. These include the orthography of various Fula dialects, Hausa, Wolof, and more.
It is basically the name of a West African Ajami script as used for that language. Wolofal was the first script for writing Wolof. Although the Latin alphabet is the primary official script of the language in today's Senegal , Wolofal is still used by many people as a symbol of Islamic Wolof culture.
Hausa Ajami script refers to the practice of using the alphabet derived from Arabic script for writing of Hausa 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 , Fulfulde , and Wolof .
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]
[citation needed] In Western Asia, it was generally applied to the Persians, while in al-Andalus it referred to speakers of Romance languages – becoming "Aljamiado" in Spanish in reference to Arabic-script writing of those languages – and in West Africa refers to the Ajami script or the writing of local languages such as Hausa and Fulani in ...