Review published In: The architecture of writing systems
Edited by Kristian Berg, Franziska Buchmann and Nanna Fuhrhop
[Written Language & Literacy 17:2] 2014
► pp. 308–314
Book review
. The Arabic script in Africa: Studies in the use of a writing system [Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics, 71]. Leiden: Brill, 2014. 400 pp.
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