INDEX

Aari, 69 ʿaǧam, 1 abajada, 175, 178f., 187–193 ʾaʿǧama, 41 Abasheikh, M., 294, 300f., 303 ʾaʿǧamī, 262 Abbéché, 263 agentive, in Swahili, 333 Abduallahi (Gwandu) bin Fooduye, Sheehu, Ahmad Ataas Laak, see Achmet (Bey) 146 Effendi Abdul Qadiri, 162 Ahmad Behardien, Sheikh, 352 Abdulaziz, M., 330 Aḥmad ibn Raslan, Sheikh, 298 abjad, 30, 175 Ahmad Nassir Juma Bhalo, 326 abjad spelling order, 154 Ahmed Badawi Sheikh bin Sheikh, see Abu Bakr Effendi, 352f., 360, 365–367, 369, Badawi, Sheikh 376f. Ahmed Nur bin Haji Abdulqadir bin Abdio Abu Bakr ibn Abdullah ibn Abdurrauf, Hasan, see Mallim Nuri Imam, 354 Äjäm, see Arabic script, in Ethiopia abujida, 270 ajam, 41 ACALAN (African Academy of Languages), ajamin hausa, see Arabic script, for writing 56 Hausa accentuation, in Swahili, 333 ajamiyya fulfulde, see Arabic script, for Achmad Atta Allak, see Achmet (Bey) writing Fulfulde, 285 Effendi Ajami script, see Arabic script, for writing Achmet (Bey) Effendi, 367, 369, 372f., 376f. languages other than Arabic acrolect, 374 Ajami, etymology of, 1, 41 Adamawa, 107 Ajami, use of the term, 1 Adamu, Abdallah Uba, 170 Ajamization, 170 Adrar, 91–93, 185 Ajuran, 295 Afar, in Arabic script, 69 Akan, 64 affricates, representation of, 96, 119–120, ʾĀl ʾAḥmad, 297 122–127, 215–217, 219, 230, 270, 276 Alamba, 76 African Academy of Languages, see albarika, 169 ACALAN albarka, 164 Afrikaanization, 359 Alexander, N., 56 Afrikaans, 73, 343f., 346–348, 351f., 355–359, Al-Falah schools, 190f. 365–380 Algeria, 79, 91–104 Afrikaans, Arabic loanwords in, 375 Al-Hajj Umar Taal, 173, 183–186, 206 Afrikaans, as lingua franca, 367 Ali Aisami, 120 Afrikaans, as official language, 366 ʿAlī, Caliph, 165 Afrikaans, Cape Muslim, 356 Ali, Yahya, 274 Afrikaans, Dutch influence in, 370 ʾalif, 8, 30 Afrikaans, English loanwords in, 375 ʾalif, as vowel bearer in Hausa, 277 Afrikaans, in Arabic script, 343–380 ʾalif, as vowel length marker in Hausa, 169 Afrikaans, Malay loanwords in, 366, 375 ʾalif, red, 159 Afrikaans, Standard, 370 ʾalif, subscript, 359 Afrikaner Bond, 372, 374 alkule mbagne, 175, 189 Afrikaners, 344, 349, 351, 367, 371 Allen, J.W.T., 322, 324, 326, 331 Afroasiatic languages, 262 almajirai, 271 Agadez, 88 Almoravids, 173 382 index

Alpers, E., 322 Arabic script, for writing Fuutanke, 179 alphabet national du tchad, see alphabet, Arabic script, for writing Hausa, 31, 174, 267, national of Chad 269, 274, 276, 281, 325 alphabet, Bamako, 175, 192f. Arabic script, for writing Jula, 202, 206 alphabet, Ethiopian, 323 Arabic script, for writing Kanuri, 108, 111, 123, alphabet, Mbagne, 175 132 alphabet, national of Chad, 273, 277, 279, Arabic script, for writing Kurdish, 31 281–284 Arabic script, for writing local history, 179 alphabet, Somali, 301 Arabic script, for writing Malay, 31f., 351 alphasyllabary, 270 Arabic script, for writing Mande, 199–223 alubarika, 164 Arabic script, for writing Manding, 199–223, Amāwī, 295 225–260 ambiguity, in writing, 180, 329 Arabic script, for writing Mandinka, Amharic, in Arabic script, 69, 270 199–223, 225–260 ʿāmmiyya, 286 Arabic script, for writing Maninka, 206 amulets, 164f. Arabic script, for writing Mogofin, 208f., ʾAndalus al-, 44 219–222 animism, 208 Arabic script, for writing Old Kanembu, anjemi, see Arabic script, for writing Yoruba 107–142 Anuak, 69 Arabic script, for writing Ottoman Turkish, apartheid, 343f., 371 32 Arab campaign, in Congo, 312 Arabic script, for writing Pashto, 31 Arabic, 184f., 187, 263 Arabic script, for writing Persian, 25, 29–31, Arabic grammar, 29, 109, 367 274 Arabic poetry, 143, 145, 147, 153, 156 Arabic script, for writing Pulaar, 173, 176–179, Arabic script, as a political symbol, 182 181, 190, 205f., 208, 221f. Arabic script, as a secret code, 179, 187 Arabic script, for writing Sindhi, 32 Arabic script, as Arab symbol, 265 Arabic script, for writing Somali, 41, 298 Arabic script, criminalization of, 162 Arabic script, for writing Soninke, 200 Arabic script, distribution in Africa, 43–46, Arabic script, for writing Southeastern 63–76, 262 Manding, 222 Arabic script, endonyms for use in Africa, 1, Arabic script, for writing Susu, 208, 220–222 41 Arabic script, for writing Swahili, 31, 311–315, Arabic script, for incantations, 179 319–339, 367 Arabic script, for religious purposes, 48–50 Arabic script, for writing Tigre, 75, 270 Arabic script, for writing languages other Arabic script, for writing Tigrinya, 72, 270 than Arabic, 1, 41, 50, 58, 63–76, 79f., 103, Arabic script, for writing Tuareg, 79–89 145, 159, 186, 262 Arabic script, for writing Turkish, 32 Arabic script, for writing Afar, 69 Arabic script, for writing Urdu, 32 Arabic script, for writing Afrikaans, 343–380 Arabic script, for writing Uyghur, 31 Arabic script, for writing Amharic, 69, 270 Arabic script, for writing Western Manding, Arabic script, for writing Bamana, 207, 217f., 222 221f., 225–260 Arabic script, for writing Wolof, 1, 41, 176, 179, Arabic script, for writing Bonduku, 206, 221 188, 216, 220, 264, 266 Arabic script, for writing Chimiini, 293–309 Arabic script, for writing Yoruba, 41, 272 Arabic script, for writing Coastal Manding, Arabic script, history of scientific study of, 222 46–50 Arabic script, for writing down songs, 179 Arabic script, in Bahia, 164f., 169 Arabic script, for writing Fula, 173–198 Arabic script, in Brazil, 161–163, 169 Arabic script, for writing Fulani, 31 Arabic script, in Ethiopia, 1 Arabic script, for writing Fulfulde, 148, 152, Arabic script, in Fuuta Toro, 186 174, 269, 277–279 Arabic script, in Jamaica, 160