Kommentar |
In diesem Seminar widmen wir uns mit einem Forschungsgebiet befassen, das bislang wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. In vielen afrikanischen Gesellschaften zwischen dem Senegal im Westen und Somalia werden einheimische (d.h. afrikanische Sprachen) mit der arabischen Schrift geschrieben. Diese Traditionen blicken teilweise auf eine jahrhundertalte Geschichte zurück,und können zum Teil auch auf einen beachtlichen Bestand an Literatur aufweisen. In dem Seminar werden wir, neben den bekannten Beispielen des Swahili und Hausa, verschiedene andere afrikanische Sprachen, die in arabischer Schrift geschrieben werden, behandeln. Ein Schwerpunkt wird dabei die Region des Horn von Afrika sein. In this course we will deal with a field of research that hasn’t been received much attention yet. In many African societies between the Senegal in the west and Somalia in the east indigenous languages (i.e. African languages) are being written with the Arabic script. This tradition,locally called ajami, has quite an old history in some areas and in some cases there exist bodies of literature of considerable size. Besides the well known cases of Hausa and Swahili we will look at a number of other lesser known writing tradition from different regions, with a special focus on the languages of the Horn of Africa. |
Literatur |
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