• Arabic Afrikaans (Afrikaans: Arabies Afrikaans, Arabic Afrikaans: عربس افركانس) or Lisan-e-Afrikaans (لسانِ افرکانس) was a form of Afrikaans written in...
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    Afrikaans started to replace Malay as the language of instruction in Muslim schools in South Africa, written with the Arabic alphabet: see Arabic Afrikaans...
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    publications from Afghanistan and Iran. Afrikaans (as it was first written among the "Cape Malays", see Arabic Afrikaans) Berber in North Africa, particularly...
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    Minangkabau Tausūg Ternate the Pegon script, for Javanese Sundanese Arabic Afrikaans, for Afrikaans historically, called ngīn (IPA: [ŋiːn]) This letter is also...
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    formation of Afrikaans. Of particular note is the Cape Muslim pioneering of the first Afrikaans literature, written in Arabic Afrikaans, which was an...
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  • Wear OS, WatchOS, tvOS Available in 56 languages List of languages Arabic Afrikaans Basque Bengali Bulgarian Catalan Croatian Danish Dutch English Estonian...
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  • Afrikaans literature is literature written in Afrikaans. Afrikaans is the daughter language of 17th-century Dutch and is spoken by the majority of people...
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  • This article describes the grammar of Afrikaans, a language spoken in South Africa and Namibia which originated from 17th century Dutch.[citation needed]...
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    ف fāʾ) ڤ‎ is a letter of the Arabic-based Kurdish, Comoro, Wakhi, and Karakhanid alphabets. It is derived from the Arabic letter fāʾ (ف) with two additional...
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    Cape Malays (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    Cape Malays (Afrikaans: Kaapse Maleiers, کاپز ملیس in Arabic script) also known as Cape Muslims or Malays, are a Muslim community or ethnic group in South...
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    Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic (Arabic: العربية الفصحى التراثية, romanized: al-ʻArabīyah al-Fuṣḥā at-Turāthīyah, lit. 'the most eloquent classic Arabic')...
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    Islam. It was also at this madrasah that the literary teaching of Arabic-Afrikaans emerged. It was through his work at the madrasah that he gained the...
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    The Arabic alphabet (Arabic: الْأَبْجَدِيَّة الْعَرَبِيَّة, al-ʾabǧadiyyah l-ʿarabiyyah [æl.ʔæb.d͡ʒæˈdɪj.jæ l.ʕɑ.rɑˈbɪj.jæ] or الْحُرُوف الْعَرَبِيَّة...
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    Katherine (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Kari (Norwegian) Karia (Norwegian) Karien (Afrikaans, Dutch, Carine in French) Kariinná (Sami) Karin (Afrikaans, Dutch, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, German...
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  • transcription delimiters. Afrikaans has a similar phonology to other West Germanic languages, especially Dutch. Afrikaans has an extensive vowel inventory...
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    comes to early sources written in Indian languages (and also Persian and Arabic), the word 'Hindu' is used in a clearly religious sense in a great number...
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    Indonesian, Regional Languages of Indonesia, English, Dutch, Chinese, Arabic, Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, Papiamento, Cantonese, Taiwanese...
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    Languages of Africa (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
    while not indigenous to Africa, are spoken in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former...
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    Arabic and its different dialects are spoken by around 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world as well as in the Arab diaspora making...
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    Aljamiado (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Ajami script – Arabic script used for various African languages Arabic Afrikaans – Variant of Arabic script used to write the Afrikaans language Arebica –...
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    mosques and other Islamic religious observances grew. He published the Arabic Afrikaans Uiteensetting van die godsdiens (Bayân al-Dîn (meaning "the exposition...
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  • Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    Vietnamese, bốp, bụp In Afrikaans, kaboem; boem; ra-tat-tat In Albanian, pum-pum; bau-bau, ta-ta-ta-ta, du-du-du-du In Arabic, bom; bov, tokh طخ In Basque...
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  • shab short for shebeen. The majority of Coloureds in South Africa speak Afrikaans. Those who speak English use the equivalent English words as slang. gam...
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    Arabic grammar (Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities...
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  • Below is list of Afrikaans exonyms: Dutch exonyms...
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    (predominant) Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, French, Persian, Arabic, Afrikaans, Bukhori, Polish, German, Chinese. Religion Judaism · Jewish secularism...
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  • contemporary spoken Arabic language is more properly described as a continuum of varieties. This article deals primarily with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which...
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    Ofra Haza (Hebrew, Arabic, English, French, German) Sonja Herholdt (Afrikaans, English) hide (Japanese, English) Steve Hofmeyr (Afrikaans, English) Ryō Horikawa...
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    observe public prayers and is where Cape Muslim traditions and the Arabic-Afrikaans language were first taught. It remains a symbol for Muslims of the...
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  • Kaffir (racial term) (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    they were monotheistic. It was eventually used, particularly in Afrikaans (Afrikaans: kaffer), for any black person during the Apartheid and Post-Apartheid...
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