ARABIC-L: LING: Transcribing ayn

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 08 Jan 1999
From: "R. Hoberman" <rdhoberman at ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: Transcribing ayn

Isn't it just wild how many different ways people transcribe ayn?!  In the
last day's postings there were ' : @ 3 and <, to which add the fairly
widely used 9 and `, plus my own favorite &.  In everyday usage there is
also simply a, especially after the vowel a, as in Saad, Baath, Baalbek.

Just an observation -- no call for standardization!

Bob Hoberman

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