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Spurious Arabic: Hausa and Colonial Nigeria PDF
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(<isjnpethatletterisnotusedinHausa.InSokototheusualsolutionwastoaddadotunderneaththe A/abieletter'shin'(j±),toshowthatthesoundwasanaffricateratherthanafricative.Otheradditionswer sometimesalsomade,suchasextravowelsigns,sinceArabichasonlythreevowelswhileHausahasfive. ShortvowelsinArabicarerepresentedbydiacriticalmarks. ThedatingoftheseinnovationswhichadaptedHausatoArabicwritingisproblematicfortwo reasons.ThefirstisthegeneraldifficultyofdatingAjamimanuscripts,especiallytheolderones.Ifmost manuscriptscannotbedated,itwoulddouslittlegoodtoseewhichonesusetheinnovatedcharacters,at leastfordeterminingthedatesofthefirstuseofthosecharacters,althoughitmightgiveusageneralidea oftherelativedatesofdifferentmanuscripts.Thesecondreasonthatdatingoftheseinnovationsis problematicisthattherehasneverbeenastandardizedAjamiorthography.Differentinnovationswere madeandusedindifferentplaces,andscholarswerefreetouseorignoretheinnovationsofotherscholars astheysawfit. ChartofAjamiLetters ROMANLETTER SpuriousArabic / 22 ROMANLETTER
