Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 20:07 |
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On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:34:41 +0100 Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
writes:
> Hi!
>
> I was wondering why the romanisation of Arabic `son' is sometimes
> `bin' and sometimes `ibn'. What is the difference? Or the mistake
> in
> one of the romanisations? Which one is how correct? What is the
> exact pronunciation in Arabic?
> **Henrik
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I think the alternation between _ibn_ and _bin_ in Arabic is a function
of where the word falls in the name-phrase. I think i remember seeing
something about it somewhere, but i'm not sure. I might actually be
learning about it soon now that we've finished the alphabet in Arabic 101
and have begun to move on to words and real sentences.
-Stephen (Steg)
"and... weeeeee!"
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