Arabic-L:LING:Transcription Query

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Date: 18 Mar 2009
From:John.Hannoush at anu.edu.au
Subject:Transcription Query

I am a Masters’ student at the ANU writing a thesis on a Lebanese  
poet who came to Australia in the 60s.  My query is technical  
concerning a point that came up when I decided to smarten up my  
transcription system (I like the McGill freeserif based font with a  
special word template).

I am wondering whether I need to use underlining or some other marking  
if I want to transliterate ذ (dhal) as “dh”.  Similarly for khaa  
(خ) as “kh”, and so on.   I assume the underlining is needed to  
remove ambiguity but is it a practical concern: do in fact sequences  
like d-sukun-h, k-sukun-h, etc  for example exist or are they uncommon  
enough to make the risk of ambiguity negligible (that is, anyone  
seeing “dh” could safely assume we are talking about dhal).   I  
think I can leave the underlining off with “gh” for غ ghain  
because “g” does not occur singly in the transcriptions.

Regards

John
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John Hannoush
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
Australian National University
0439 973 699

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