On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Peyman wrote: > Conclusion: You can say that the origin of our alphabet is > Arabic but you can not claim that our writing system is Arabic. > Our writing system is Persian âkhaat e farsiâ. It is what > my teacher Dr. Safavi as a linguist says in his book and what I > also say as a linguist.
We have been all talking about the script (which you call it alphabet), not writing system. And if they call both of them "khat-e farsi" in Persian, that may be the source of the problem. > Just let me know if more linguists are needed to testify :) > however, what linguists believed and struggled to say has been > ignored extensively during past years. Dr Bateni proposed a > minor change to our writing system long ago in order to better > serve the Persian language; and they ignored him and fired him > from the Tehran university because of political and religious > red lines. > > Peyman --behdad behdad.org _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
