Re: An arabo-romance conlang?
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 28, 2001, 10:45 |
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At 08:40 2001-01-27 +0000, Raymond Brown wrote:
> >> - How old is the Arabic alphabet?
[snip]
>Yes, it was script used in Mecca in Muhammad's time and in which the Koran
>was written, which meant, of course, that it then replaced all other local
>variants.
Yes, but early in the Muslim period it was consciously reformed under the
influence of Syriac script. In fact the difference between the pre- and
post-reform versions of the script is quite startling. The objective of
course was to provide a more exact tool for recording the Koranic text.
/BP 8^)>
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