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Re: Rating Languages

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 1:29
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:17:22 -0400 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes: > > David Peterson wrote: > > > Because when you put two Arabic characters together, they never > > merge > > > to form some third character, as happens all the time in Hindi. > > > Well, there are some ligatures in Arabic. I'm not sure, tho, of > > how > > common they are in modern printed Arabic. > > -- > > AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42 > - > > Well, the only real ligature that i can think of is laam-alif, which > looks just like the two letters individually, except that they're merged > together at one point instead as part of a horizontal line. In > handwritten Arabic, though, there are lots more ligature-like features, > when certain letters can only be joined by putting one almost on top of > another one. > > > -Stephen (Steg) > "SabaaH alxayr! SabaaH alnuur!" >
Does this mean Good morning or somesuch? In Bosnia the Muslims will sometimes use "sabah hajrula" as a greeting...