On Sun, Jan 1, 2023 at 2:14 PM BPJ via ntg-context
wrote:
It's a bit confusing because the word ʿajamī simply means anything written
> in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script. Africa is certainly not the
> only place where that term has been used. It is also the case that Arabic
> script has
It's a bit confusing because the word ʿajamī simply means anything written
in a non-Arabic language with Arabic script. Africa is certainly not the
only place where that term has been used. It is also the case that Arabic
script has been used to write West African languages for very many
centuries
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/
On 1/1/2023 11:03 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
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 197
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
v
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
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.)
Hraban
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