25.546, Books: The Arabic Script in Africa: Mumin, Versteegh (Eds)

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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:16:39
From: Stephanie Paalvast [paalvast at brill.com]
Subject: The Arabic Script in Africa: Mumin, Versteegh (Eds)

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Title: The Arabic Script in Africa 
Subtitle: Studies in the Use of a Writing System 
Series Title: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com

Book URL: http://www.brill.com/arabic-script-africa 

Editor: Meikal Mumin
Editor: Kees Versteegh

Hardback: ISBN:  9789004256798 Pages: 420 Price: Europe EURO 134
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004256798 Pages: 420 Price: U.S. $ 174

Abstract:

The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present
use of Arabic script to write African languages. These writing traditions,
which are sometimes collectively referred to as Ajami, are discussed for
single or multiple languages, with examples from all major linguistic phyla of
Africa but one (Khoisan), and from all geographic areas of Africa (North,
West, Central, East, and South Africa), as well as a paper on the Ajami
heritage in the Americas. The papers analyze (ethno-) historical, literary,
(socio-) linguistic, and in particular grammatological aspects of these
previously understudied writing traditions and exemplify their range and
scope, providing new data for the comparative study of writing systems,
literacy in Africa, and the history of (Islam in) Africa.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Writing Systems

Written In: English  (eng)

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