Re: Hinession Dialect Continuums

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)