On Jul 1, 12:13 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jun 30, 4:26 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > On Jun 30, 10:47 pm, dances_with_barka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> > > I seek a list of languages, whose modern orthography employs the
> > > arabic alphabet.
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> > Have you tried to compile one, using Wikipedia? The list would
> > obviously be very long - Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri,
> > Sorani Kurdish, Pashtu...
>
> You'll find ten of them beyond Arabic in tables in *The World's
> Writing Systems*, with mentions of a number of others.
>
> Basically, wherever Islam has gone, languages have been written with
> an Arabic script. English in Madagascar and Afrikaans in South Africa,
> for instance. Also Malay, Swahili, Hausa, Uyghur, Belarusian,
> Albanian, ...
And the Slavic variety spoken in Bosnia - I think I have seen
specimens in some book about Slavic languages. Now it cannot be called
Serbo-Croatian anymore, but I guess "literary Neo-Shtokavian" caters
well for Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.
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