On Jun 30, 7:59 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 12:13 am, "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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> > 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,
> > for instance. Also Malay, Swahili, Hausa, Uyghur, Belarusian,
> > Albanian, ...
im****tantly Ottoman Turkish.
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> And the Slavic variety spoken in Bosnia - I think I have seen
Bosnian .
> specimens in some book about Slavic languages. Now it cannot be called
> Serbo-Croatian anymore, but I guess "literary Neo-Shtokavian" caters
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