Re: which languages use arabic alphabet?

<phoglund@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2:59 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 12:29 am, Xabi <jser...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> >  ... but the OP
>> > asked explicitly for:
>> > "a list of languages, whose modern orthography employs the arabic
>> > alphabet".

>> Are you suggesting something like government sanction as the criterion
>> for acceptable use of a script?

Examples comparable to writing English in runes ought to be filtered out.

> Are you suggesting that there is something morally reprehensible about
> focusing on standard languages officially sanctioned?

Perhaps not morally reprehensible, but it has problems, such as completely

omitting Pattani Malay.  On the other hand, it has the advantage of 
excluding of avoiding the necessity of working out what the 
Rohingya-speakers do use.

Richard.