Ajami script
As Adschami script or Ajami script (from Arabic عجمي, DMG ʿağamī 'foreign, non-Arabic ', cf. also ʿAdscham ) are applications of the Arabic script for languages other than Arabic.
This term primarily refers to African languages such as Hausa , Fulfulde , Wolof , Malinke , Mandinka , Bambara , Songhai , Kanuri , Swahili and Somali , some of which have been written with the Arabic alphabet for centuries , as well as to the literature that uses this script was written. Today, many of these African languages are predominantly written in Latin.
The use of the Arabic script for Somali is also called the Wadaad script .
The use of the Arabic script for Iberoromanic languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Aragonese, Catalan) is called (Spanish) Aljamía (also from Arabic عجمي, DMG ʿağamī ), and the manuscripts written in this document are called aljamiado .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mohamed Ziadah, UNESCO: What are the Ajami? ( Memento from November 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )