Re: which languages use arabic alphabet?

On Jul 1, 9:52 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 10:29 am, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > On Jul 1, 5:14 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > > On Jun 30, 7:59 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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> > > > And the Slavic variety spoken in Bosnia - I think I have seen
> > > > specimens in some book about Slavic languages. Now it cannot be
called
> > > > Serbo-Croatian anymore, but I guess "literary Neo-Shtokavian"
caters
> > > > well for Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.-
>
> > > I've looked for samples of Bosnian but haven't found any.
>
> > "The Slavic Languages" in Routledge's Language Families series MIGHT
> > include a sample, but I am not sure.
>
> Do you mean *The Slavonic Languages*, ed. Comrie & Corbett? Cubberley
> describes but does not illustrate Arabic script for Belarusian and
> Bosnian,

OK, so my memory obviously didn't quite serve. :(

with references to Soviet sources very unlikely to be
> available here (the Belarusian one was published in 1968 in a city
> that appears to transliterate as Vilnius, which is a bit surprising).

Not that surprising, considering what a backwater Belarus itself has
always been in comparison with the Baltic States - even and especially
in the Soviet times.