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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 .

3. Jambo Means Hello - Wikipedia

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   Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book is a 1974 picture book written by Muriel Feelings and illustrated by Tom Feelings. It is an abecedarium of Swahili terms for the 24 letters in the Swahili alphabet. Jambo Means Hello won the 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book and was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 1975.

4. 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.

5. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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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, [66] c is not used apart from the digraph ch, unassimilated English loans and, occasionally, as a substitute for k in ...

6. Standard Swahili language - Wikipedia

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   Standard Swahili language arose during the colonial era as the homogenised version of the dominant dialects of the Swahili language.. Standard Swahili enabled communication in a wide array of situations: it facilitated political cooperation between anti-apartheid fighters from South Africa and their Tanzanian military instructors and continues to give members of the African American community ...

7. Help:IPA/Swahili - Wikipedia

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   This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Swahili on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Swahili in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.