[Lexicog] Arabic-based scripts in Shoebox on Arabic-enabled computers

[Patrick Chew]

At 02:26 PM 4/19/2004, Peter Kirk wrote:
>Well, Urdu is neither Farsi nor Arabic, but something rather different,
>although closer to Farsi. There are some additional significant
>differences in Urdu, which are well described in the article you mentioned:

         Well, I included Urdu in the discussion only for the reason that
it's also a relatively large/major language that uses a
modified-Perso-Arabic script and, like Persian, loves the rather cursive
looking fontface as base, as opposed to the standard printed stuff.

>This seems very clear and useful - although it doesn't deal with
>languages other than the big three and a few variants. I understand that
>there are some additional complications e.g. in Sindhi where I think two
>forms of kaf are used contrastively, rather like the two forms of yeh in
>Urdu.

         I believe the article/presentation was meant for non-specialists
who needed an introduction to the complexity of the pan-Arabic-script
situation. The two kafs, <kaf> [kh] and <swash kaf> [k] in Sindhi are
pretty straightforward, though sometimes hard for me to remember which is
which - swash-kaf is unaspirated, while the regular kaf is aspirated.
         I've been asked by a few academes around to try and put something
together on the whole pan-Arabic-script situation... we'll see if
Qualifying Papers and other somesuch allow me to in the near future or not.

cheers,
-Patrick



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