On Jul 1, 10:41 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 1, 10:36 pm, Yusuf B Gursey <y...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 1, 10:18 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Jul 1, 8:19 pm, Yusuf B Gursey <y...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > On Jul 1, 5:07 pm, "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"
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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,
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> > > > > > > > > > > > > I seek a list of languages, whose modern
orthography employs the
> > > > > > > > > > > > >arabicalphabet.
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> > > > > > > > > > > > Have you tried to compile one, using Wikipedia?
The list would
> > > > > > > > > > > > obviously be very long -Arabic,Persian, Urdu,
Sindhi, Kashmiri,
> > > > > > > > > > > > SoraniKurdish, Pashtu...
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> > > > > > > > > > > You'll find ten of them beyondArabicin 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
> > > > > > > > > > > anArabicscript. 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
theArabicscript, but the OP
> > > > > > > > > > asked explicitly for:
> > > > > > > > > > "a list of languages, whose modern orthography employs
thearabic
> > > > > > > > > > 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 anArabicphilologist who takes any interest at all in
anything
> > > > > written in the last couple of centuries (or since 1000 AH).
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> > > > modern arabic poetry and drama and novels, stories (remember
Naguib
> > > > Mahfouz?) are of interest in the university here.-
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> > > "Here"? Your email address suggests you are located in "the world."
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> > > In which department?
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> > Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. it includes everything from
> > Akkadian to Classical and Modern Arabic Literature.-
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> Well, Anonymous University is unusual in comparison to most American
> universities.
but well known if I gave the name.
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