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Diallo, Ibrahima. 2012. Qur'anic and Ajami literacies in pre-colonial West Africa. Current Issues in Language Planning 13 (2) : 91–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language planning | literacy | religion | script | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Ajami

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article explores Arabic literacy introduction and development in pre-colonial West Africa, for particular religious functions and later for secular practices in Ajami, African language literacy, employing the Arabic script.