Ever since, thousands of books have been published in Yorùbá using Latin script instead of Ajami, an Arabic script used before 1843 to write in West African Indigenous languages such as Yorùbá and Hausa.
Tun lokacin an buga dubunnan litattafai a Yoruba ta hanyar amfani da haruffan Latin, maimakon ajami wanda haruffa ne na Larabci da aka yi amfani da su kafin shekarar 1834 wajen rubuta harsunan Afirka ta kudu kamar Yoruba da Hausa.