aljamiado
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thumb|Al-Fatiha with Castillian translations in Aljamiado script above each line of Arabic Quranic text. thumb|Aljamiado text by Mancebo de Arévalo. c. 16th century. thumb|Poema de Yuçuf
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Encyclopedic overview
17 sectionsContents
- History
- Alphabet
- Letters
- Vowels
- Vowel Sequences
- Consonants
- B, V (ب) and P (بّ)
- G, J (ج and خ) and Ch (جّ)
- D (د and ذ)
- R (ر) and Rr (رّ)
- Z (ز), Ç/S (س), and X (ش)
- Other uses
- Text sample
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Al-Fatiha with Castillian translations in Aljamiado script above each line of Arabic Quranic text. thumb|Aljamiado text by Mancebo de Arévalo. c. 16th century. thumb|Poema de Yuçuf
Aljamiado (; ; trans. ʿaǧamiyyah ) or Aljamía texts are manuscripts that use the Arabic script for transcribing European languages, especially Romance languages such as Old Spanish or Aragonese. This alphabet is also called the Morisco alphabet.
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