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sala;m , rafiyqus ! Steg wrote: > Well, yours seems to work pretty well. Ah, glad to hear it. Though I think I'll make some minor amendments. So, here is my renewed version: hamza -- 2 alef -- ; initial alef with hamza -- ; (NOT 2;) alef with maddah -- A beh -- b teh -- t teh marbuta -- t: theh -- T jeem -- j hah -- H khah -- x dal -- d thal -- D reh -- r zain -- z seen -- s sheen -- S sad -- s' dad -- d' tah -- t' zah -- z' ain -- 3 (decided to follow you!) ghain -- G feh -- f qaf -- q kaf -- k lam -- l meem -- m noon -- n heh -- h waw -- w alef maksura -- Y yeh -- y "Points": fatha -- a kasra -- i damma -- u shadda -- double letter sukun -- no special sign "raised" alef -- a! Additional letters: peh -- p tcheh -- c jeh -- Z gaf -- g I changed alef maksura from |e| to |Y|, because in those cases when waw and yeh are used as signs for vowels /o/ and /e/ like in Urdu, I'll transcribe them as |o| and |e| to make reading easier and avoid clumsy romanization. So, "to eat", written kaf-waw-meem-yeh-reh, will be transliterated as |komer| :) The system is based mostly on classical sampa. To read, remember that |a;|, |iy|, |uw| denote historically long vowels (which is important for determining position of stress), and unstressed |u| and |i| are read [o] and [e] respectively... > I have my own suggestion, though: > > Letters: > â, b, t, þ, j, H, x, d, ð, r, z, s, s, S, D, T, Z (or: Ð), ` (or: 3), G, > f, q, k, l, m, n, h, w/û, y/î. Nice. But certainly it's better to use smth ASCII-friendly. > I.E.: ismî mûsà. 'anâ Tâlib fî aljâmi`ä. darastu al`arabiyyä fii háðihi > alsa`ä kull yawm. lâ 'urîd 'an 'aðhab lilbaSrä. al'îkûtûbiyûn majnûnîn. > hal tafhamûn? `âlam "'ill baþisad" yajî' hunâ 'ayDan. Let me see if I remember smth from my Arabic lessons. Does it mean: <<My name is Musa. I'm a student at the University. I studied Arabic presently for the whole day. I don't think that I'll leave for Basra. Writers are mad (???) Do they understand? The world Ill Bethisad comes here too.>> > -Stephen (Steg) xayru, Yitzik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ P.S. It looks like I fell ill with flu. 15 degrees below zero do not add health. So, my apologies if I be silent for a couple of days. Yes, I have a comp at home (wherefrom I send this message now), but using it demands so much efforts while you have fever...