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The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili 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, Fula, and Wolof. In the 2010s, there has been work on creating new ...
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.
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. Hausa ajami is an alphabet where vowel sounds are written using ...
Hausa (/ ˈ h aʊ s ə /; [2] Harshen / Halshen Hausa listen ⓘ; Ajami: هَرْشٜىٰن هَوْسَا) is a Chadic language that is spoken by the Hausa people in the northern parts of Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, and the southern parts of Niger, and Chad, with significant minorities in Ivory Coast.
Ilẹ̀ Yorùbá. A Yoruba speaker, recorded in South Africa. Yoruba (US: / ˈjɔːrəbə /, [ 2 ] UK: / ˈjɒrʊbə /; [ 3 ]Yor.Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عَٜدَٜی يُواْرُبَا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the Yoruba people.
The Bible Society of Nigeria published a revised translation in 2014. Another translation called Sabon Rai Don Kowa was published in 2020. The same year, the first complete Bible in Hausa ajami script was published (Biblical texts had been published before, the first ones during the last years of the 19th century).
Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being considered. It is an agglutinative language. It constructs whole words by joining together discrete roots and morphemes with specific meanings, and may also modify words by similar processes. Its basic word order is SVO.
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). [ 6 ] Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely ...