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acm (acm_redfox@jawns.club)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 04:36:50 JST acm

Well, this is pretty crazy news -- a new written language discovered among people previously considered "illiterate"...
https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/
#BlackMastodon #Africa #Arabic
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  Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans
  
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  When BU’s Fallou Ngom found a note written by his late father, in a language that looked like Arabic but sounded like Wolof, it opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.

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