Meikal Mumin and Kees Versteegh, The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System.

The volume under review consists of a collection of sixteen papers resulting from the workshop The Arabic Script in Africa – Diffusion, Usage, Diversity and Dynamics of a Writing System that was held at the University of Cologne in April 2010. It focuses on how Arabic script has been used to write African languages in the graphic form traditionally referred to as ajami, a term derived from the Arabic word ʕaʒam “non-Arab, Persian”. This book focuses on both the linguistic and sociolinguistic ..