Arabic Afrikaans

Arabic Afrikaans
عربس افركانس
Arabic Afrikaans; عربس افركانس
Script type	Abjad
Direction	Right-to-left
Languages	Afrikaans;
Related scripts
Parent systems	Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Nabataean Arabic Arabic Afrikaans; ; ; ; ;
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Arabic Afrikaans (Afrikaans: Arabies Afrikaans, Arabic Afrikaans: عربس افركانس) or Lisan-e-Afrikaans (لسانِ افرکانس) was a form of Afrikaans written in the Arabic script. It began in the 1830s in the madrasa in Cape Town. Beside a 16th-century manuscript in the German language written with Arabic script,^[1] it is the only Germanic language known to have been written in the Arabic script.^[2]

^ compare the Lutheran hymn Vater unser im Himmelreich in the following picture. [Martin Luther]: Alaman Türkīsi. In: [Anon.]: Meǧmūʿa. [o.O.u.J.] fol. 40r.-41v. http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00642162 also the digitalization of the full picture http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/3373545 (accessed 2019-01-15).
^ "List of issues Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies". www.tandfonline.com.

[1] re the Lutheran hymn Vater unser im Himmelreich in the following picture. [Martin Luther]: Alaman Türkīsi. In: [Anon.]: Meǧmūʿa. [o.O.u.J.] fol. 40r.-41v. http://data.onb.ac.at/rec/AL00642162 also the digitalization of the full picture http://data.onb.ac.at/dtl/3373545 (accessed 2019-01-15).

[2] "List of issues Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies". www.tandfonline.com.

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