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--- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote: > Ádam Wóker (Adam Walker) eskriviw: > So Ajami vocalizes L's before consonants, but not after? > > Ya mi mohhtáramo rafiko, Izakko Penzevo karimo, > > Wahh! Hhavla Ostad Adjamiyya? Isto mehhadze muyta > làzzat! > (Oh dear! Do You speak Ajami? That makes me very > happy!) > A really surrealistic impression you get while > having received a > message in your own conlang. That's for sure! Sorry about goofing up your name. In C-a you'd be Izacu Pinzevu. > ObConlang: > 1) _hh_ is the only way I find to represent [X\] in > an > ascii-friendly character set. I'm not satisfied with > it, since _hh_ > is much more frequent in Ajami than _h_ [h], and I > use _x_ for > rendering [S] à la Portuguese... Any suggestions? I don't know. You could go for _kh_ or _gh_ or some such. > 2) As for names: I'm not sure if proper names would > receive ending > _-o_ that is normally a reflection of "tanwiin > d.amm". Anyway, even > if they do, Qur'anic names would be spelt as they > are found in Q. > So, among Ajamis I would be known as Eshhák (or > Eshhako, if you're > right). Maybe with a "nisba" like el-Yehudiyyo... Yes, I think such things are quite common in C-a, too. Izacu Pinzevu ul Ivreu djil Chevi. > Yep, that's a kind > of disclaimer: I'm not a Muslim. :))) I merely find > an > Andalusian-like culture a fascinating conculturing > alternative. > > > I > > don't believe Iberia has ever been Shi`a. The > > Umayyads were staunchly Sunni, IIRC and . . . > well, I > > don't recall whether the Almohads/Almorvids et al. > > were Sunni or not. I think they were sort of like > the > > Wahabis at first and then drifted into decadance > and > > then lost their Maghrebi territories to the > Isdrids > > who were sort of Talibanish. But I can't recall > which > > form of Islam any of those three groups held to. > > All right. I'll let them be Sunni. And surely, most > of the civilized > world in AdjTL in the 15th c. AH (21st c. AD) is > already > post-religious (whether it is post-Islamic > South/West or > post-Christian North/East), just like today's Europe > here, but > slightly milder... By milder do you mean less heathen that *here* or less religious than *here*. > > Behhairo, > -- Eshhak > Amigu tiu, Adamu ===== Indjindrud edjuebu ul Ozias ad ul Jotam. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Jotam ad ul Acaz. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Acaz ad ul Ezecias. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Ezecias ad ul Manases. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Manases ad ul Amos. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Amos ad ul Josias. Machu 1:9-10