On Jun 30, 7:13 pm, 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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> > 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.
See WWS p. 762 s.v. Munthe.
This isn't the best place to tell you, but you will at least know the
name: Alan Kaye died on May 31. Bone cancer was discovered on May 1,
in UAE where he was teaching; his son brought him home to Fullerton on
May 22; chemo was apparently working, but he suc***bed to pneumonia.
It wasn't announced until a couple of weeks later. He was 63.
> English is
> occassionally writtten in Urdu script by Pakistanis.
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> > for instance. Also Malay, Swahili, Hausa, Uyghur, Belarusian,
> > Albanian,
We all forgot to mention Ottoman Turkish!
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