Le 1/01/2023 à 11:03, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context a
écrit :
Am 01.01.23 um 10:21 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
On 12/31/2022 3:06 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via
ntg-context wrote:
I just read this:
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/
And now I’d like to know if ConTeXt is capable of
typesetting this variant of Arabic. (Just out of
curiosity, I can’t read any Arabic and don’t know any
African language.)
Afaiks that script has been known fro a while:
I also thought I heard about it several years ago. The
article makes it sound like news, that might be the
perspective of the US scholars or a necessary means to get
funded. But the oldest sources quoted in Wikipedia are
from 1971 and 1982.
The arabic alphabet was also used from the XIth century to
write swahili and some bantu languages around Tanzania and
Kenya (Mozambic, Malawi, Uganda, east of Kongo, Sudan).
There are articles in Wikipedia.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_arabe_swahili
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language#Orthography
also: https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/swahili/ see
"writing"
https://omniglot.com/writing/swahili.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajami_script
so when there are proper fonts, as:
https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/
https://software.sil.org/harmattan/
I don’t dare to ask about the Husayni fonts... ;)
it should be doable. The script is supported by unicode.
I get the impression that the arabic scipt is mostly used
getting the way the languages sounds on paper so vowels
matter. There is mentioning of transliteration and so
that might need some specific support. Nothing tex
(context) can't do but only users and usage can prove that.
Thank you for your insights!
Of course it’s a matter of use(r)s.
All the best for a happy new year!
Hraban
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