The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System PDF
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The Arabic Script in Africa Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics Editorialboard A.D.RubinandC.H.M.Versteegh VOLUME71 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/ssl The Arabic Script in Africa Studies in the Use of a Writing System Editedby MeikalMumin KeesVersteegh LEIDEN•BOSTON 2014 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData TheArabicscriptinAfrica:studiesintheuseofawritingsystem/EditedbyMeikalMumin,Kees Versteegh. pagescm.–(StudiesinSemiticlanguagesandlinguistics;71) MostofthepapersinthepresentvolumearebasedonpresentationsattheTASIA(TheArabic ScriptinAfrica-Diffusion,Usage,DiversityandDynamicsofaWritingSystem)workshop,which tookplaceonApril6–7,2010,attheUniversityofCologne,Germany. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-90-04-25679-8(hardback:alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-25680-4(e-book:alk.paper) 1.Arabiclanguage–Writing.2.Arabicalphabet.3.Africa–Languages.I.Mumin,Meikal.II. Versteegh,Kees,1961- PJ6123.A732013 492.7'11096–dc23 2013031839 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characters coveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities. Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN0081-8461 ISBN978-90-04-25679-8(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-25680-4(e-book) Copyright2014byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillNijhoff,GlobalOrientalandHotei Publishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillNV providedthattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter, 222RosewoodDrive,Suite910,Danvers,MA01923,USA. Feesaresubjecttochange. 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CONTENTS Preface.................................................................. ix ListofContributors..................................................... xi ListofFigures,TablesandMaps ........................................ xv Introduction............................................................ 1 SECTIONI GENERALPROBLEMSOFARABIC-SCRIPTBASEDTRADITIONS TheTypeandSpreadofArabicScript .................................. 25 PeterT.Daniels TheArabicScriptinAfrica:UnderstudiedLiteracy..................... 41 MeikalMumin SECTIONII NORTHAFRICA PreliminaryNotesonTuareginArabicScriptfromNiger............... 79 MaartenKossmannandRamadaElghamis Writing‘Shelha’inNewMedia:EmergentNon-ArabicLiteracyin SouthwesternAlgeria............................................... 91 LameenSouag SECTIONIII WESTAFRICA OldKanembuandKanuriinArabicscript:Phonologythroughthe graphicsystem ..................................................... 107 DmitryBondarev InfluenceofArabicPoetryontheCompositionandDatingof FulfuldeJihadPoetryinYola(Nigeria) ............................. 143 AnnekeBreedveld vi contents WestAfricanAjamiintheNewWorld(Hausa,Fulfulde,Mande languages).......................................................... 159 NikolayDobronravin FulaandtheAjamiWritingSystemintheHaalpulaarSocietyof FuutaToore(SenegalandMauritania):ASpecific‘Restricted Literacy’ ............................................................ 173 Marie-ÈveHumery AjamiScriptsforMandeLanguages .................................... 199 ValentinVydrin MandingAjamiSamples:MandinkaandBamana...................... 225 ValentinVydrinandGérardDumestre WestAfricanScriptsandArabic-ScriptOrthographiesin Socio-PoliticalContext ............................................. 261 AndyWarren-Rothlin SECTIONIV EASTAFRICA Chimi:niinArabicscript:ExamplesfromBravapoetry................. 293 BanaBanafunziandAlessandraVianello SwahiliDocumentsfromCongo(19thCentury):Variationin Orthography........................................................ 311 XavierLuffin Akhipatiakalamu:WritingSwahiliPoetryinArabicScript............. 319 ClarissaVierke SECTIONV SOUTHAFRICA Revisitingal-Qawlal-matīn:ASociolinguisticallyEngineered Arabic-Afrikaanstext............................................... 343 MuhammedHaron contents vii ARemarkableDocumentinArabic-Afrikaans:TheElection Pamphletof1884 ................................................... 365 KeesVersteegh Index ................................................................... 381 PREFACE Most of the papers in the present volume are based on presentations at the TASIA (The Arabic Script in Africa—Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and DynamicsofaWritingSystem)workshop,whichtookplaceonApril6–7, 2010,attheUniversityofCologne,Germany.Theworkshopwasorganized byHelmaPaschandMeikalMuminandhostedbytheInstituteforAfrican Studies(InstitutfürAfrikanistik)oftheUniversityofCologne(Universität zuKöln).ItwasgenerouslyfundedbytheFritzThyssenFoundation(Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für die Wissenschaft), Cologne, Germany, for which the editorswouldliketoexpresstheirgratefulness. Thanks are due to Valentin Vydrin and Andy Warren-Rothlin for their constructive and helpful remarks about different variants of the system of transcription followed in this volume. Thanks are also due to Dmitry Bondarev,bothforhisconstructiveandhelpfulremarksonthesystemsof transliterations,andforhishelpingettingintouchwithfurtherresearchers inthepreparationsfortheTASIAworkshop.Formoreinformationonthe workshop, and further informations, please see the website http://www .tasia.org/ TheeditorialstaffatBrill’s,inparticularStephaniePaalvast,weremost helpfulinrealizingthepublicationofthisvolume.Duringtheproduction stage,MarjoleinSchaakedidanexcellentjobonamanuscriptthatwasby allaccountscomplicated.
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