Religion:Tarjumo language
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Short description: Kanuri liturgical language of Nigeria
| Tarjumo | |
|---|---|
| Old Kanembu | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
Native speakers | None[1] liturgical use only |
Early form | Old Kanembu
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | txj |
| Glottolog | tarj1235[2] |
Tarjumo is a Kanuri liturgical language of Nigeria. Also referred to as "Classical Kanembu," it is a modernized form of Old Kanembu from c. 1400 CE and is unintelligible with modern Kanembu or Kanuri.[3][4] The name derives from the Arabic verb tarjama (ترجم), meaning "to translate." It is primarily used by Muslim scholars for exegesis of the Qur'an (tafsir) and other Arabic texts.
References
- ↑ Tarjumo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Tarjumo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/tarj1235.
- ↑ "Old Kanembu - African Department - SOAS" (in en). http://www.soas.ac.uk/africa/research/oldkanembu/.
- ↑ Bondarev, Dmitry (January 2013) (in en). Performance of Multilayered Literacy: Tarjumo of the Kanuri Muslim Scholars. https://www.academia.edu/4273178.
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