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Struggling to make sense of Ajami in old manuscripts

Posted by u/Falsebeginnerwhoca_420 / May 30, 2026

I’ve been learning Hausa through Latin script for a year, but I’ve recently become fascinated by the history of Ajami. I want to start reading basic texts, but I’m finding the mapping between Arabic characters and Hausa phonology really unintuitive. Does anyone know of any bridge resources that explain the transition from Romanized Hausa to the Ajami script for learners?

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