Tarjumo language

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.

Tarjumo
Native toNigeria
Native speakers
None[1]
liturgical use only
Early form
Old Kanembu
Language codes
ISO 639-3txj
Glottologtarj1235[2]

References
  1. Tarjumo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tarjumo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. "Old Kanembu - African Department - SOAS". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  4. Bondarev, Dmitry. "Performance of Multilayered Literacy: Tarjumo of the Kanuri Muslim Scholars". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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