On Jul 1, 1:59 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 12:29 am, Xabi <jser...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jun 30, 11:13 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
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> > > > > 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, ...
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> > 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".
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> Are you suggesting something like government sanction as the criterion
> for acceptable use of a script?
Not at all. I was somehow shocked to see Belarusian listed. Is the
Arabic script commonly used nowadays for writing Belarusian? And
Afrikaans?
Javi
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