LL-L "Anniversary" 2005.05.27 (04) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Anniversary" 2005.05.27 (02) [E]

Na'am, I asked Sahibi to use vowel punctuation in the Modern Standard
Arabic version, and in the Iraqi as well, but in case of the latter I
asked him to transcribe his text in "Western" script as well, because as
you'll know the Arabic dialects do have more vowels than the MSA or
Classic Arabic long and short a i u. But, sadiqi is no linguist or expert
on this, so we'll have to wait and see what comes out of it.
I think he'll visit me next month or so, and then I could run thru the
text with him, if necessary, to make my own phonetic transcription...

Ingmar

>From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Anniversary
>
>Thank you very much for that and for other Anniversary Project
>contributions, Ingmar.
>
>Could you ask your contact if he is able to word-process the text, and in
>either case if he could give us either the vowel punctuation (so we can
>transliterate the text) or provide a transliteration himself?  If he
>word-processes it and doesn't know how to do the vowel punctuation, could
>you ask him to add the punctuation by hand and then either send me the
>hardcopy, a graphic or PDF file of it?
>
>Apparently there are several of us that are "sort of" able to follow
>Arabic texts but are not sure about the vowel assignment.  (As you may
>know, in Arabic, as in Hebrew, vowels are not normally written but can be
>indicated by means of added diacritic symbol, and several "consonant
>skeleton" words are written identically but have different vowels. You
>need context and sufficient competency to read everything correctly.)

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Anniversary

Thanks, Ingmar!

I'm sure that with his efforts in conjunction with information on Iraqi
Arabic phonology we'll be able to manage just fine.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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