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    Researchers are still hypothesizing about the origins of the Sorabe alphabet. "Sorabe" means literally "large writings" from Arabic "sura" (writing)...
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  • Malagasy (/ˌmæləˈɡæsi/ MAL-ə-GASS-ee; Malagasy pronunciation: [malaˈɡasʲ]; Sorabe: مَلَغَسِ) is an Austronesian language and dialect continuum spoken in Madagascar...
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    Latin alphabet of 21 letters which replaced the old sorabe alphabet. By 1830 the Bible was the first book written in this new Malagasy Latin alphabet. It...
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    belonging to the Anteony (aristocrats), Antalaotra (scribes of the Sorabe alphabet) or Anakara clans claim being descendants of settlers who arrived from...
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    Madagascar (script known as Sorabe) Nubian Shona in Zimbabwe Somali (see wadaad's Arabic) has mostly used the Latin alphabet since 1972 Songhay in West...
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    languages. Jawi alphabet – used to write Malay, Acehnese, Banjar, Minangkabau, Maguindanao, Tausug, Western Cham and others. Sorabe alphabet – once used to...
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    Pegon script (redirect from Pegon alphabet)
    have to corroborate and follow His Majesty the Prophet Muhammad. Jawi alphabet Dahlan, H. Abdullah Zaini. Kitabati, Practical Methods for Learning to...
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    Buri Wolio (category Arabic alphabets)
    sounds are symbolized. This script has 35 letters, 28 letters from Arabic alphabet and 7 additional letters similar to those in Jawi script to represent sounds...
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  • similar to the missing consonant phoneme. This is similar to the tradition of Sorabe (Arabo-Malagasy) orthograhpy, where a geminated r (رّ‎) is meant to represent...
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    Antambahoaka vocabulary. The local dialect was originally written using sorabe, the Arabic alphabet adapted to transcribe the Malagasy language. Today, only a small...
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    sometimes by specific names for individual languages, such as Wolofal, Sorabe, and Wadaad's writing. Despite the existence of a widely known and well-established...
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    Madagascar, which differed from the Polynesian matriarchal system. Sorabe is an alphabet based on Arabic used to transcribe the Malagasy language and the...
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    the schools of the Sorbian areas since 1948. Yèche, Hélène (2013). "Les Sorabes: Une minorité invisible?". Belgeo: Revue Belge de Géographie (in French)...
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    was educated at court and learned to read the Malagasy language in the Sorabe Arabico-Malagasy script used by Antemoro ombiasy (court astrologers). As...
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    (used to transcribe the Malagasy language in a form of writing known as sorabe), Arab astrology, and other cultural elements. European contact began in...
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  • U+0870..U+089F (48 code points) Plane BMP Scripts Arabic Major alphabets Bosnian Javanese Sorabe Sundanese Assigned 42 code points Unused 6 reserved code points...
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    Malagasy language using the Arabic alphabet in a script termed sorabe. These schools did not persist, and sorabe literacy passed into the realm of arcane...
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    on the cliff-face "imputable to characters derived from the Phoenician alphabet with a high probability that the [glyphs] emanate from the family of southern-Arabic...
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