Are words broken across lines in African scripts and do they use hyphenation?
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Description
Two questions here.
- Do words written in African scripts get broken at the end of a line?
- If they do, does the script in question use hyphenation or some sort of similar visual marker to indicate the the word continues on the next line?
My understanding is that, although hyphenation can occur when the arabic script is used for Uighur, words are usually not broken at the end of a line in the arabic script used in north Africa (and so there is no hyphenation). Is this also the case for text written in ajami?
How about N'Ko, Adlam, Vai, etc.?
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Research direction
Begin by researching line breaking and hyphenation practices for African scripts, including Arabic-script Ajami, N'Ko, Adlam, and Vai. Done means documenting whether words break at line endings and which visual markers, if any, indicate continuation for each script.
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