Re: which languages use arabic alphabet?

On Jun 30, 8:01 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 2:13 am, Yusuf B Gursey <y...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jun 30, 5:13 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Jun 30, 4:26 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Jun 30, 10:47 pm, dances_with_barka...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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...
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> > Malay is also sometimes written in arabic based script.
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> Oh yes. And I can guess that so is Tausug.
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> > > You'll find ten of them beyond Arabic in tables in *The World's
> > > Writing Systems*, with mentions of a number of others.
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> > > Basically, wherever Islam has gone, languages have been written with
> > > an Arabic script. English in Madagascar and Afrikaans in South
Africa,
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> > English in Madagascar?? I know of Malagasy in Madagascar. English is
> > occassionally writtten in Urdu script by Pakistanis.
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> Interesting. Continuous discourse, or just borrowed words and phrases?

I see it in menus and signs in the US by pakistani immigrants