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The Afrikaans Language Museum has identified 74 works in Afrikaans written in Arabic letters.

The Afrikaans Language Museum in Paarl counts 74 identified Arabic Afrikaans works written between 1845 and 1957, from student notebooks to voting posters, and calls Arabic Afrikaans the form generally accepted as the first written Afrikaans.

Bo-Kaap · 1845 Read the story

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A 254-page book of Islamic law, printed in 1877, is early Afrikaans written in Arabic letters.

Abu Bakr Effendi's Bayan al-Din was printed in Istanbul in 1877: Hanafi religious law set out in the Afrikaans his Cape students spoke, written throughout in modified Arabic script.

Cape Town · 1877 Read the story