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The Revelation: The earliest known use of ʿajamī as a label

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

paper
Creator:
Bondarev, Dmitry
Publisher:
Zenodo
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The interlinear glosses written in African languages of West Africa often have a descriptive metalinguistic marker, asserting the presence of an Ajami segment. The earliest dated use of such a marker has been found in one Borno Qur'an manuscript. Blog: ajami.hypotheses.org/
Project: manuscript-cultures.uni-ham… Research supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 344888349

Languages

Kanuri, Yerwa

Tags

Borno Qur'ansOld KanembuSoninke AjamiHausa AjamiSūrat al-Ahqāf (Q.46)Revelaton (tanzīl)

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeOpen Accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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