On Jul 2, 12:07 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 4:06 pm, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 1, 9:54 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Jul 1, 10:35 am, phogl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Jul 1, 2:59 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"
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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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> > > > > > > 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?
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> > > > Are you suggesting that there is something morally reprehensible
about
> > > > focusing on standard languages officially sanctioned?-
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> > > It's not something a linguist would do.
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> > What about a philologist?-
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> Find an Arabic philologist who takes any interest at all in anything
> written in the last couple of centuries (or since 1000 AH).
Do you suggest there is no modern literature worth mentioning?
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