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اللغة الهرريّة

الحرف العربيّ · تاريخيّ؛ تُكتب اليوم بالحروف الجئزيّة (الإثيوبيّة)

وداج برّخ بشارنا

الهرريّة لغةٌ ساميّةٌ إثيوبيّة يتكلّمها أهل مدينة هرر في شرق إثيوبيا، وأكثرهم يتكلّمون الأمهريّة أو الأوروميّة لغةً ثانية. وكتبها أهلها المسلمون بالحرف العربيّ المعروف بالعجميّ، وأقدم مخطوطاتها المعروفة «كتاب الفرائض» الذي يُظهر أثر العربيّة في أصواتها وألفاظه…

Source: Abdulhamid Abdulahi Ahmed, Muna Abubeker, Giorgio Banti, «Arabic Words on the Earliest Harari ʿAğamī Manuscript of Kitāb al-Farāʾiḍ», Manuscripta Orientalia vol. 31 no. 2 (2025), pp. 15–20, doi 10.31250/1238-5018-2025-31-2-15-20

لغة الأورومو

الحرف العربيّ · تاريخيّ؛ كُتبت بالعربيّة والجعزيّة حتّى مطلع السبعينات، وصارت تُكتب باللاتينيّة رسميًّا منذ 3 نوفمبر 1991م

الأورومو أكبر قوميّات إثيوبيا، ولغتهم من الفرع الكوشيّ الشرقيّ من الأسرة الأفروآسيويّة، ولها ناطقون في كينيا والصومال. كتبها مسلموهم في هرر ووللو وجمّا وبالي وأرسي بالحروف العربيّة مع علاماتٍ زائدة للأصوات غير العربيّة، وأكثر ما كتبوه بها القصائد الدينيّة ومدا…

Source: Nuraddin Aman, «An Investigation into the Walābū Oromo Script Devised by Sheikh Kemal Adem», Journal of Ethiopian Studies 55:1 (2022), pp. 129–150, Addis Ababa University

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