On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: > I wonder what non-Arabs users of the Arabic script call it. Perhaps Roozbeh > Pournander and N.R. Liwal can help us: how is the "Arabic alphabet" called > in Farsi, Urdu, and Pashtun? Persian speakers call it "alefbaa-ye faarsi". Persian Alphabet. The problem is similiar to the Chinese case. They consider it offensive to refer to the script as the Arabic alphabet. They also think that Persian speakers have contributed enough to the script to call it their own. For example, I have heard (I'm not sure) that Arabic vowels (e.g. U+064B..U+0655) are invention of Persians who needed to read Koran right. There are few people who refer to it as Arabic script, namely some linguists and some Unicodies. --roozbeh PS: Please do not use my yahoo email address. It is something I needed to subscribe to groups such as qalam, because our university filters Yahoo Groups emails.
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