Truthday:
African Arabic-Script Languages Title: From the ‘Sacred’ to the ‘Profane’: the Yoruba Ajami Script and the Challenges of a Standard Orthography. Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Fountain University, Osogbo Nigeria The Yoruba (southwest Nigeria) constitute the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The earliest evidence of the presence of Islam and literacy goes back to the 16th/17th century. The earliest documented history of the people, which is traced to the latter part of the 17th C, was in Yoruba language but in the Arabic script (Ajami). This makes Yoruba one of the oldest African languages with an attested history of Ajami. (Cf. Mumin & Versteegh 2014; Hofheinz 2018). However, the oldest, extant Yoruba Ajami exemplar is a 19th C Islamic verse (waka) by Badamasi Agbaji (d. 1895- Hunwick 1995). There are several items of Yoruba Ajami in poetry, personal notes, esoteric knowledge (Cf. Bang 2019), among others. Nevertheless, Yoruba Ajami remained idiosyncratic and not socially diffused, as there was no standardized orthography. The plethora of dialects, the absence of a central promotional institution, among others, are responsible. My paper will examine the efforts (Abdussalām (1992), Yūsuf (1997), Amīn (1998, 2000), Abdulhameed (2008, 2013), and ISESCO (2014f) towards the establishment of a standard Yoruba Ajami orthography for sacred and mundane usages among the locals, sufi orders, and educational institutions. It will analyze the obstacles that impeded the success of the efforts and how to overcome them. How a standard Ajami orthography can popularize the diffusion of knowledge and information in a digital scholarly and social milieu is examined.

raskymonojendor:

What Muslims thought was kewu or Quranic recitation.

Islamic scholars and traders from other west African and northern African countries would have definitely written ajami or arabic about many tribes they encounter.

WorldRichest:
Go and concentrate on your life so that you won't beg for food like those before you

Truthday:
African Arabic-Script Languages Title: From the ‘Sacred’ to the ‘Profane’: the Yoruba Ajami Script and the Challenges of a Standard Orthography. Amidu Olalekan Sanni, Fountain University, Osogbo Nigeria The Yoruba (southwest Nigeria) constitute the second largest ethnic group in Nigeria. The earliest evidence of the presence of Islam and literacy goes back to the 16th/17th century. The earliest documented history of the people, which is traced to the latter part of the 17th C, was in Yoruba language but in the Arabic script (Ajami). This makes Yoruba one of the oldest African languages with an attested history of Ajami. (Cf. Mumin & Versteegh 2014; Hofheinz 2018). However, the oldest, extant Yoruba Ajami exemplar is a 19th C Islamic verse (waka) by Badamasi Agbaji (d. 1895- Hunwick 1995). There are several items of Yoruba Ajami in poetry, personal notes, esoteric knowledge (Cf. Bang 2019), among others. Nevertheless, Yoruba Ajami remained idiosyncratic and not socially diffused, as there was no standardized orthography. The plethora of dialects, the absence of a central promotional institution, among others, are responsible. My paper will examine the efforts (Abdussalām (1992), Yūsuf (1997), Amīn (1998, 2000), Abdulhameed (2008, 2013), and ISESCO (2014f) towards the establishment of a standard Yoruba Ajami orthography for sacred and mundane usages among the locals, sufi orders, and educational institutions. It will analyze the obstacles that impeded the success of the efforts and how to overcome them. How a standard Ajami orthography can popularize the diffusion of knowledge and information in a digital scholarly and social milieu is examined.

Psychokinetic:

No wonder no yoruba Mozulem 🐖 is allowed to become Imam or sight the moon 🙄

Psychokinetic:

No wonder no yoruba Mozulem 🐖 is allowed to become Imam or sight the moon 🙄

Rolings:


An igbo catholic can never be pope
Anglican igbo will never become Archbishop....you pretend as if this is not there and is having a hard on over Yoruba matters...
Not surprised
Igbos are known for this foolishness of always going to put out the fire of a neighbor house when his own house is on fire

Psychokinetic:

See yoruba Mozulem 🐷 comparing local titles to international ones.

Only a subterranean subhuman will compare being a pope to being a local imam at a local mosque.

And yes if your semi literate self will bother to look up Cardinal Francis Arinze you will see he was a principal adviser to Pope John Paul II.

Now tell me, which of you ‘5 times a day brain smashed on concrete’ lots has ever gotten as close to even being a friend to the imam of your local mosque?? I mean shit, they even consider you 🐷🐷🐷s as fake mozulems!

Next time, try to seperate dangerous stupidity from sophistication before quoting me 🤦‍♀️