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  2. Swahili Ajami | Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Ajami script | Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Yoruba language | Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Swahili grammar | Wikipedia

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    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. However, because the verb is inflected to indicate the ...

  6. Hausa Ajami | Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Arabic script | Wikipedia

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    official at a provincial level (China, India, Tanzania) or a recognized second script of the official language (Malaysia, Tajikistan) The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic, ALV and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), [ 2 ...

  8. Maore dialect | Wikipedia

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    Maore Comorian, or Shimaore (French Mahorais), is one of the two indigenous languages spoken in the French -ruled Comorian islands of Mayotte; Shimaore being a dialect of the Comorian language, while ShiBushi is an unrelated Malayo-Polynesian language originally from Madagascar. Historically, Shimaore- and ShiBushi-speaking villages on Mayotte ...

  9. Comorian languages | Wikipedia

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    Comorian (Shikomori, or Shimasiwa, the "language of islands") is the name given to a group of four Bantu languages spoken in the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the southwestern Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar. It is named as one of the official languages of the Union of the Comoros in the Comorian constitution.