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Along with the religion of Islam, the Arabic language, Arabic number system and Arab customs spread throughout the entire Arab caliphate. The caliphs of the Arab dynasty established the first schools inside the empire which taught Arabic language and Islamic studies for all pupils in all areas within the caliphate. The result was (in those ...
The orthographic ajamization of the Aramaic script, which produced the Arabic script, preceded the orthographic ajamization of indigenous African languages. [6] Arabic composition styles for West African manuscripts were primarily developed as distinct composition styles in the Sahelo-Saharan belt region of Mali and Mauritania, and in Bornu ...
عامية المثقفين ʿāmmiyyat al-muṯaqqafīn, 'colloquial of the cultured' (also called Educated Spoken Arabic, Formal Spoken Arabic, or Spoken MSA by other authors [28]): This is a vernacular dialect that has been heavily influenced by MSA, i.e. borrowed words from MSA (this is similar to the literary Romance languages, wherein ...
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.
Arabic words made their way into several West African languages as Islam spread across the Sahara. Variants of Arabic words such as كتاب kitāb ("book") have spread to the languages of African groups who had no direct contact with Arab traders. [100]
The defining feature of the tradition of Ajami script in Sub-Saharan Africa, is that whereas in Arabic (and many other languages whose script has been derived from Arabic), vowel diacritics are generally dropped unless an ambiguity needs to be clarified, vowel diacritics are always written.