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Re: Hinession Dialect Continuums

From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Saturday, March 22, 2003, 16:10
From: "Sarah Marie Parker-Allen" <lloannna@...>

> I've always loved that word, though. I think most Arabic words are > unusually nice sounding, and if it weren't for the amount of complaining I > got from my roommate (who grew up speaking it, and made it her academic > major in college) I'd study it. Nice thing about Russian, again, is that > the part everyone thinks will be the hardest (the new alphabet) takes
about
> a week to master.
Cyrillic is essentially Greek disguised as Latin. I remember the first time I tried to write Arabic. I erroneously wrote all the letters in their isolated (non-connected) form!
> Anyhow, how DO you say "Shahrzad"/"Shahrazad"? Like, legitimately (people > on TV are still saying "Qatar" as "Kutter," "Kuh-tar," "Kwuh-tar," and > "Kotter")?
Shahrzad = [S{hr"zQ:d] (using X-Sampa here, and I still dislike using { for ae-ligature) Qatar = ["qAtAr] (Standard Arabic), ["G\Vt@r] (Gulf Spoken Arabic)