Fula Ajami

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Fula Ajami is a writing tradition that uses modified Arabic script to represent the Fula (Fulani) language in religious, literary, and everyday texts across West and Central Africa.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Fula Ajami canonical 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ajami script
cultural tradition
writing system
adaptedFrom Arabic script
associatedWithEthnicGroup Fulani people
linked to: Fulani
associatedWithLanguageFamily Atlantic–Congo languages
culturalRole local record-keeping
preservation of Fulani literary heritage
transmission of Islamic knowledge
hasFeature additional letters for Fula sounds
diacritics to mark vowels
hasTransliterationTarget Latin script
historicallyLinkedTo Islamic education in West Africa
Quranic schools
languageCodeContext Fulfulde
regionOfUse Cameroon
Fouta Djallon
Northern Nigeria
Sahel
Senegambia
scriptCategory Abjad
scriptDirection right-to-left
scriptFamily Arabic-derived scripts
status non-standardized orthographic tradition
usedAlongside Latin-based Fula orthography
usedBy Fulfulde speakers
Pulaar speakers
Pular speakers
usedFor Islamic scholarship
Quranic commentary
administrative records
everyday texts
letters
literary texts
poetry
religious texts
usedIn Central Africa
West Africa
usesScript Arabic script
usesScriptType modified Arabic script
writingCommunity Muslim scholars
Sufi orders
local clerics
writingSystemFor Fula language
Fulani language
linked to: Fula language
writingSystemType consonant-based alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ajami hasVariant Fula Ajami
Mandinka Ajami relatedTo Fula Ajami