West African Ajami in the New World (Hausa, Fulfulde, Mande languages)

Ajami script for the Mande languages

Arabic-based (Ajami) writing has been used for Mande languages, most probably, since

Ajami Scripts for Mande Languages

Africa, West: The Mande World

A Handwritten Text Recognition Dataset for Ajami Manuscripts in Fulfulde and Hausa

We present the first ever dataset of manually segmented and transcribed Ajami manuscripts written in Fulfulde and Hausa. The term Ajami refers to modified Arabic-script orthographies in Africa. Existing handwritten text recognition (HTR) and optical character re

Ajami Transliteration for Multiple African Languages

Conditional-relatives in Senufo (Gur) and Manding (Mande): The encoding of generalizing relative clauses in West African languages Conditional-relatives in Senufo (Gur) and Manding (Mande): The encoding of generalizing relative clauses in West African languages

Different West African languages of the Gur and Mande families have a type of relative clauses addit