Ajami scripts West Africa/Sahel

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These are written in the Fula language. Many others exist in Hausa, Wolof and other languages.

Here’s more pictures showing more modern uses of the Ajami script:


Aside from Ajami scripts, Arabic was a sort of literal lingua franca for many West African and Sahelian Muslim communities. Niger alone has a Musuem containing 4000 Arabic manuscripts.

 

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