Aljamia

/alxaˈmia/ noun

A Romance language written in Arabic script, particularly Spanish or Portuguese written using Arabic characters.

From Arabic al-jamiya, related to aljama. This term describes the actual text or language produced when Romance languages were written in Arabic script during medieval Iberia.

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