Re: Rating Languages

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...