Awe-Kikọ Ọrọ Yoruba Anjemi (Yoruba Anjemi grammar book)

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The entire manuscript is available for download as a single PDF file. Higher-resolution images may be available upon request. For technical assistance, please contact [email protected]. Fieldwork Team: Dr. Mustapha Hashim Kurfi (Principal Investigator), Malam Umar Hajji Mustapha (Local Project Manager) and Abdullahi Mohammed (General Field Facilitator). Technical Team: Prof. Fallou Ngom (Director African Studies Center), and Eleni Castro (Technical Lead, BU Libraries). This collection of Yoruba Anjemi materials are copied as part of the African Studies Center’s African Ajami Library. Access Condition and Copyright: These materials are subject to copyright. All rights reserved to the author. For use, distribution or reproduction contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]). Citation: Materials in this web edition should be cited as: Kurfi, Mustapha Hashim, Ngom, Fallou, and Castro, Eleni (2019). African Ajami Library: Digital Preservation of Yoruba Anjemi Materials of Southwestern Nigeria. Boston: Boston University Libraries: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/38122. For Inquiries: Please contact Professor Fallou Ngom ([email protected]).Provenance and Condition: This manuscript is owned by the Markaz Ihyahil Islam Abayawo, Ilorin – Nigeria, an institution which propagates, teaches, and popularizes Yoruba Anjemi knowledge. This Yoruba Anjemi grammar book is in good condition, and has no missing pages. Though undated, our sources indicate that it was written about 20 years ago (circa 1999).The manuscript titled "Iwe-Kikọ Ọrọ" (Yoruba Anjemi Grammar Book) is a small grammar book written in Yoruba Anjemi to teach students the system and structure of the Yoruba language, using the modified Arabic script – Anjemi. It contains tables with the letters, vowels, syntax and morphology, phonology, and the Yoruba system of semantics. Exclusively written in Yoruba Anjemi, the manuscript is less than 20 pages, numbered using Arabic numerals at the top center of each page, with no date of publication. Importantly, the sponsors’ address (Markaz Ihyahil Islam Abayawo, Ilorin – Nigeria) is boldly written on the front and back covers. Also, the email address and cellphone numbers of the printer (or publisher) was on the back cover of the small grammar book. Although predominantly written in Yoruba Anjemi, the supplications are meant to be read or chanted in Arabic. The scribe used the standard Mashriqi writing style and for illustration purposes. Latin script was also used throughout the book, with Yoruba implosives on the vowels, in consistence with the Yoruba pronunciations.The contents of this collection were developed with support of the Title VI National Resource Center grant # P015A180164 from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government