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African Language Studies 8:1-51. Dalby, David. 1968. The indigenous scripts of West Africa and Surinam: their inspiration and design. African Language Studies 9:156-197. Dalby, David. 1969. Further indigenous scripts of West Africa: Manding, Wolof, and Fula alphabets and Yoruba holy-writing. African Language Studies 10:161-191
Additionally, there were some marginalia that bore no direct relevance to the areas of texts where they were found, and thus, were independent fragments; [9] for example, "the main text is the story of Yusuf, and the marginalia, written in the right margin perpendicular to the main text, comments on a bird of paradise" and a "note located ...
The manuscripts are written in Arabic and several African languages, in the Ajami script; this includes, but is not limited to, Fula, Songhay, Tamasheq, Bambara, and Soninke. [3] The dates of the manuscripts range between the late 13th and the early 20th centuries (i.e., from the Islamisation of the Mali Empire until the decline of traditional ...
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The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative of Saide , the ASb has an interactive website that enables users to read, create, download, translate, and adapt storybooks. [ 1 ]
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (born 1968) is a Kenyan writer who is the author of novels, short stories and essays. She won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers". Education and professional life
Other works in written form are abundant, namely in North Africa, the Sahel regions of west Africa and on the Swahili coast. From Timbuktu alone, there are an estimated 300,000 or more manuscripts tucked away in various libraries and private collections, [ 11 ] mostly written in Arabic but some in the native languages (namely Fula and Songhai ...
These were written in an older Berber language likely to be most closely related to Tashelhiyt. The consonant g was written with jīm (ج ) or kāf (ك ), ẓ with ṣād (ص ) or sometimes zāy (ز ), and ḍ with ṭāʼ (ط ). Vowels a, i, u were written as orthographically long vowels ā , ī , ū .