Zaghawa alphabet
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zaghawa-alphabet-320-15885364
title:
Zaghawa alphabet
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The Zaghawa or Beria alphabet, Beria Giray Erfe, is an indigenous alphabetic script proposed for the Zaghawa language of Darfur and Chad. In the 1950s, a Sudanese Zaghawa schoolteacher named Adam Tajir created an alphabet for the Zaghawa language, sometimes known as the camel alphabet, deriving its glyphs from the clan brands used for camels and other livestock. He copied the inventory of the Arabic script, so the system was not ideal for Zaghawa. In 2000, a Zaghawa veterinarian named Siddick Ad
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Indigenous alphabet proposed for the Zaghawa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaghawa_alphabet
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2024-04-26T22:54:38Z
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