Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana

Vydrin, Valentin; Dumestre, Gérard

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“…They are among the first groups to embrace Islam in West Africa. They have spread their Islamic education, culture, language, popular griot (bard) tradition, and Arabic and ʿAjamī writing system throughout West Africa (Donaldson, ; Niane, ; Ogorodnikova, , ; Schaffer, ; Tamari, , ; Vydrine, , ; Vydrine & Dumestre, ).…”

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Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance

Ngom

Castro

2019

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This article focuses on the digital preservation of African sources written in Mandinka ʿAjamī, i.e., the enriched form of the Arabic script used to write the Mandinka language for centuries. ʿAjamī writing has been utilized to document intellectual traditions, histories, belief systems, and cultures of non‐Arab Muslims around the world. ʿAjamī texts have played critical roles in the spread of Islam in Africa and continue to be used for both religious and nonreligious writings. However, African ʿAjamī texts such as those of the Mandinka people of Casamance in southern Senegal are not well known beyond local communities. ʿAjamī texts in Mandinka and other Mande languages are among the least documented. Only a few Mande ʿAjamī texts are available to scholars. Thanks to the British Library's Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), Africa's rich written heritage in ʿAjamī and other scripts previously unavailable to academics is being preserved and made universally accessible.

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Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance

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Castro

2019

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The Linguistic Ecology of the Sahel

Laughlin¹

2021

The Oxford Handbook of the African Sahel

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The topic of this chapter is the linguistic ecology of multilingualism in the Sahel. Based on the premise that named languages are social and often colonial constructs, the chapter focuses on the speaker-centered notion of linguistic repertoire and the ways in which Sahelians use their linguistic resources. French and standard or literary Arabic are important languages in the Sahel, and they reflect strong regimes of language that are reinforced through education, both secular and Quranic. Communication in the multilingual Sahel is facilitated by indigenous languages that have become local or regional lingua francas. There are a number of writing practices generally overlooked in official statistics on literacy, including the use of the Arabic and other scripts to write indigenous languages. Orality is widely valued, and mastery of eloquent language has resulted in the differentiation of a caste of verbal artists or griots within the social hierarchy.

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Le soninké dans les manuscrits islamiques : Corrélation entre les correspondances graphématiques et phonémiques

Drame¹

2021

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Manding Ajami Samples: Mandinka and Bamana

Cited by 3 publications

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Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance

Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance

The Linguistic Ecology of the Sahel

Le soninké dans les manuscrits islamiques : Corrélation entre les correspondances graphématiques et phonémiques

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