On Jun 30, 11:13 pm, "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.
>
> > 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, ...
That's a nice exhibition of erudition,and I could add some other
languages that have been written using the Arabic script, but the OP
asked explicitly for:
"a list of languages, whose modern orthography employs the arabic
alphabet".
Note the word "modern" and the present tense of "employs".
Javi
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