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Swahili in Arabic script on the clothes of a girl in German East Africa (c. early 1900s) Swahili is now written in the Latin alphabet. There are a few digraphs for native sounds, ch, sh, ng ' and ny; q and x are not used, [64] c is not used apart from the digraph ch, unassimilated English loans and, occasionally, as a substitute for k in ...
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 ...
Though the Latin Script was used to write Latin throughout Roman Africa and a handful of Latin-script inscriptions in the Punic language (more commonly written in the Phoenician script, as noted above) also survive, [43] [44] the first systematic attempts to adapt it to African languages were probably those of Christian missionaries on the eve ...
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.
Sicilian language (5 C, 8 P) Slavic languages written in Latin script (13 P) Slovene language (12 C, 11 P) Spanish language (20 C, 80 P) Swahili language (7 C, 20 P) Swedish language (18 C, 35 P)
The Geʽez script has been adapted to write other languages, mostly Ethiosemitic, particularly Amharic in Ethiopia, and Tigrinya in both Eritrea and Ethiopia. It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it has traditionally been used for Tigre and just recently for ...
Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.
Along with the Latin script and Arabic script orthographies, there are also some modern indigenous writing systems used for Bantu languages: The Mwangwego alphabet is an abugida created in 1979 that is sometimes used to write the Chewa language and other languages of Malawi.