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Proposal to Encode Bosnian Arabic Characters
Proposal to encode Bosnian Arabic characters Denis Moyogo Jacquerye <[email protected]> 2019-10-03 1. Introduction The Arabic alphabet has been used to write Bosnian from the 15th to the mid 20th century. In the early 20th century Mehmed Džemaludin Čaušević extended the alphabet, adding several letters including two letters that are proposed for encoding: • ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH INVERTED SMALL V for nj [ɲ], • ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW for ć [tɕ]. Other additional letters, which are already encoded, were used in this orthography: ,[For c [ts ڄ ARABIC LETTER DYEH 0684 • ,[For č [tʃ چ ARABIC LETTER TCHEH 0686 • ,[was used for both dž [dʒ] and đ [dʑ ج 062C ARABIC LETTER JEEM • ,[For lj [ʎ ڵ 06B5 ARABIC LETTER LAM WITH SMALL V • ,[For [u ۆ 06C6 ARABIC LETTER OE • .[For [o ۉ 06C9 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ YU • Čaušević’s alphabet was used in publications from 1908 until the 1940s. That alphabet is referred to by several names: arebica, harfovica, matufovica, matufovača, mektebica. According to Pjanić (2009), several periodicals used arebica: Tarik (1908-1911), Muallim (1910-1913), Misbah (1912-1913) and Jeni Sabah (1914); and also the last publication using Arebica was Seid Serdarević Fikh ʾulʿibādāt (1941). Those two letters are mentioned in descriptions of Bosnian Arebica such as Bourgeois (1913), Lehfeldt (2001), Gažáková (2014). In recent years, there has been interest in Čaušević’s orthography. Notably in works by Al-Zubi and Cicak-Al-Zubi, in the Šegrt Suljica comics published in the Bosnian children magazine Elif. The 062C ARABIC LETTER is used for dž [dʒ] and another letter represents đ [dʑ], for ج JEEM example Al-Zubi and Cicak-Al-Zubi use 0620 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH and a letter ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH SMALL V ڠ THREE DOTS ABOVE BELOW, which could potentially be encoded if in use, can be found in some character charts. -
The Impact of Arabic Orthography on Literacy and Economic Development in Afghanistan
International Journal of Education, Culture and Society 2019; 4(1): 1-12 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ijecs doi: 10.11648/j.ijecs.20190401.11 ISSN: 2575-3460 (Print); ISSN: 2575-3363 (Online) The Impact of Arabic Orthography on Literacy and Economic Development in Afghanistan Anwar Wafi Hayat Department of Economics, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan Email address: To cite this article: Anwar Wafi Hayat. The Impact of Arabic Orthography on Literacy and Economic Development in Afghanistan. International Journal of Education, Culture and Society . Vol. 4, No. 1, 2019, pp. 1-12. doi: 10.11648/j.ijecs.20190401.11 Received : October 15, 2018; Accepted : November 8, 2018; Published : January 31, 2019 Abstract: Currently, Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian), the two official languages, and other Afghan languages are written in modified Arabic alphabets. Persian adopted the Arabic alphabets in the ninth century, and Pashto, in sixteenth century CE. This article looks at how the Arabic Orthography has hindered Literacy and Economic development in Afghanistan. The article covers a comprehensive analysis of Arabic Orthography adopted for writing Dari and Pashto, a study of the proposed Arabic Language reforms, and research conducted about reading and writing difficulty in Arabic script by Arab intellectuals. The study shows how adopting modified Latin alphabets for a language can improve literacy level which further plays its part in the economic development of a country. The article dives into the history of Romanization of languages in the Islamic World and its impact on Literacy and economic development in those countries. Romanization of the Afghan Official languages and its possible impact on Literacy, Economy, and Peace in Afghanistan is discussed. -
The World's 500 Most Influential Muslims, 2021
PERSONS • OF THE YEAR • The Muslim500 THE WORLD’S 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS • 2021 • B The Muslim500 THE WORLD’S 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS • 2021 • i The Muslim 500: The World’s 500 Most Influential Chief Editor: Prof S Abdallah Schleifer Muslims, 2021 Editor: Dr Tarek Elgawhary ISBN: print: 978-9957-635-57-2 Managing Editor: Mr Aftab Ahmed e-book: 978-9957-635-56-5 Editorial Board: Dr Minwer Al-Meheid, Mr Moustafa Jordan National Library Elqabbany, and Ms Zeinab Asfour Deposit No: 2020/10/4503 Researchers: Lamya Al-Khraisha, Moustafa Elqabbany, © 2020 The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre Zeinab Asfour, Noora Chahine, and M AbdulJaleal Nasreddin 20 Sa’ed Bino Road, Dabuq PO BOX 950361 Typeset by: Haji M AbdulJaleal Nasreddin Amman 11195, JORDAN www.rissc.jo All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repro- duced or utilised in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanic, including photocopying or recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Views expressed in The Muslim 500 do not necessarily reflect those of RISSC or its advisory board. Set in Garamond Premiere Pro Printed in The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Calligraphy used throughout the book provided courte- sy of www.FreeIslamicCalligraphy.com Title page Bismilla by Mothana Al-Obaydi MABDA • Contents • INTRODUCTION 1 Persons of the Year - 2021 5 A Selected Surveyof the Muslim World 7 COVID-19 Special Report: Covid-19 Comparing International Policy Effectiveness 25 THE HOUSE OF ISLAM 49 THE -
Creating Standards
Creating Standards Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Studies in Manuscript Cultures Edited by Michael Friedrich Harunaga Isaacson Jörg B. Quenzer Volume 16 Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Creating Standards Interactions with Arabic Script in 12 Manuscript Cultures Edited by Dmitry Bondarev Alessandro Gori Lameen Souag Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM ISBN 978-3-11-063498-3 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-063906-3 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-063508-9 ISSN 2365-9696 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. For details go to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019935659 Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2019 Dmitry Bondarev, Alessandro Gori, Lameen Souag, published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 6/17/19 6:48 PM Contents The Editors Preface VII Transliteration of Arabic and some Arabic-based Script Graphemes used in this Volume (including Persian and Malay) IX Dmitry Bondarev Introduction: Orthographic Polyphony in Arabic Script 1 Paola Orsatti Persian Language in Arabic Script: The Formation of the Orthographic Standard and the Different Graphic Traditions of Iran in the First Centuries of -
Arabic Samaritan Yezidi
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Proposal to Encode the Khwarezmian Script in Unicode
L2/18-010R 2018-03-26 Proposal to encode the Khwarezmian script in Unicode Anshuman Pandey [email protected] March 26, 2018 1 Introduction This proposal is a substantial revision and expansion of the following: • L2/17-054R: “Proposal to encode the Khwarezmian script in Unicode” It incorporates comments provided by the UTC Script Ad Hoc Committee in: • L2/17-255: Recommendations to UTC #152 July-August 2017 on Script Proposals • L2/18-039: Recommendations to UTC #154 January 2018 on Script Proposals Major changes include: • Definition of the script as a cursive joining abjad • Details on joining properties, shaping behaviors, and usage of • Addition of a detached form of aleph and a vocalization sign for waw and yodh • Encoded representations of examples words and numbers • Additional specimens showing usage of the script 2 Background The proposed script was used between the 2nd and 9th centuries for writing Khwarezmian (ISO 639-3: xco), a now-extinct Eastern Iranian language that was spoken in the Oxus (Amu Darya) river delta. This region in Central Asia is known in the Avesta as ନରଌଭଆଓ hvâirizem (Yašt 10.5.14). The Achaemenids re- ferred to it as κΠμπηΡρ uvârazmiš (XPh inscription, lines 21–22). It is called xvārazm in and this , خوارزمclassical Persian, which is transcribed as ‘Khwarezm’ in English. The Greeks knew it as Χορασμία hellenic form entered the English lexicon as ‘Chorasmia’. The territory lies across portions of present-day Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan. Both ‘Khwarezm’ and ‘Chorasmia’ are used in modern English, along with the adjectives ‘Khwarezmian’ and ‘Chorasmian’, and the variant spellings ‘Khwarazmian’ and ‘Choresmian’. -
Offline Arabic Handwriting Identification Using Language
2010 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Offline Arabic Handwriting Identification Using Language Diacritics Mohammed Lutf, Xinge You, Hong Li Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan - China Email:[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] Abstract—In this paper, we present an approach for writer probability distributions, combined with moment invariants identification using off-line Arabic handwriting. The proposed and structural word features, such as area, length, height, method introduced Arabic writing in a new form, by presenting length from baseline to upper edge and length from base Arabic writing in its basic components instead of alphabetic. We split the input document into two parts: one for the line to lower edge. Rafiee et al. [6] introduced a new writer letters and the other for the diacritics, we extract all diacritics identification method for Persian writer, 8 different types from the input image and calculate the LBP histogram for of features associated with height and width of text are each diacritic then concatenate these histograms to use it as extracted and feed forward neural network used for the handwriting features. We use the IFN/ENIT database in the classification. In [7], Abdi et al. propose a stroke-based experiments reported here and our tests involve 287 writers. The results show that our method is very effective and makes method; they extract the strokes from the document then the handling of the Arabic handwriting more easily than before. produce different PDF combination of the measurement of height/size, length and curvature. Gazzah et al. -
Chapter 15: Instructed in the Songs of the Lord
CHAPTER 15: INSTRUCTED IN THE SONGS OF THE LORD Dies irae, dies illa, Dinosaurus fit aquila, Teste Darwin cum gorillâ. Rex Hunnorum est Attila! Circumflex et nunc cedilla, Potentilla tormentilla, Mexicali Rose tortilla, Solis ortus in Tequilâ: Haec est via Amarillo? Horatius Jacobus Carbonator, ‘Baseborn Palinode’ Last night the bland Archdeacon Blennerhassett Blane and I were playing Inon Zur’s Prince of Persia with an ensemble called the Boone Silver Band who needed two extra tubas. By the time you’ve studied chapter 15, you’ll be able to find the fourth, sixteenth, and twenty-second words of the foregoing sentence encrypted gematrically in the epigraphic poem. What a reward! Now let us begin. Numbers are important in the Bible. Two she-bears tear forty and two children in II Kings 2. 24. In John 21. 11 a net contains an hundred and fifty-three fish. Revelation 13. 18 tells us to count the number . And Psalm 87. 6 says, The LORD shall count . So you don’t feel uneasy about having found a whole garden of numbers in two verses of Psalm 49. A Canadian scholar called Lexis Picot dislikes the idea of a numerical message in poetry of any kind, but then he has been brought up to believe that poetry is created only by Forlorn Bosoms ’Neath Th’ Afflicted Welkin, and that the job of its creators is to address Eternal Problems, or Sublime Intimations, or Metaphysical Yearnings. When Picot reads Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred he savours the tragedy and ignores the numerical specificity. -
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Kunduz Maksutova
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Master's Capstone Projects Center for International Education 2004 A Comparative Study of Higher Education Reforms of three Central Asian Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan Kunduz Maksutova Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_capstones Part of the Higher Education Commons Maksutova, Kunduz, "A Comparative Study of Higher Education Reforms of three Central Asian Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan" (2004). Master's Capstone Projects. 145. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie_capstones/145 This Open Access Capstone is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for International Education at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Capstone Projects by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Comparative Study of Higher Education Reforms of three Central Asian Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan by Kunduz Maksutova Master's Project is submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirement for the degree of Master of Education University of Massachusetts/Amherst, MA, USA School of Education Educational Policy, Research and Administration Department Center for International Education Academic advisor: David Evans, Ph.D. May 2004 DEDICATION I dedicate my Master's Project from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA to my beloved parents, father Tashbolot and mother Buaiym, whose heartfilled generosity taught me to love and care for humanity and without whose wisdom and spiritual support, my ambition to get sophisticated education in USA would have remained an unrealized dream. To my lovely sons Edil and Emil, whose patience and blessings inspired me to complete the program. -
Infrastructures of Language and Chinese Scripts in an Age of Global Information Revolution Ulug Kuzuoglu
Codes of Modernity: Infrastructures of Language and Chinese Scripts In an Age of Global Information Revolution Ulug Kuzuoglu Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2018 ©2018 Ulug Kuzuoglu All rights reserved ABSTRACT Codes of Modernity: Infrastructures of Language and Chinese Scripts in an Age of Global Information Revolution Ulug Kuzuoglu This dissertation explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—the effort to phoneticize Chinese language and/or simplify the writing system—from its inception in the 1890s to its demise in the 1980s. These reforms took place at the intersection of industrialization, colonialism, and new information technologies, such as alphabet-based telegraphy and breakthroughs in printing technologies. As these social and technological transformations put unprecedented pressure on knowledge management and the use of mental and clerical labor, many Chinese intellectuals claimed that learning Chinese characters consumed too much time and mental energy. Chinese script reforms, this dissertation argues, were an effort to increase speed in producing, transmitting, and accessing information, and thus meet the demands of the industrializing knowledge economy. The industrializing knowledge economy that this dissertation explores was built on and sustained by a psychological understanding of the human subject as a knowledge machine, and it was part of a global moment in which the optimization of labor in knowledge production was a key concern for all modernizing economies. While Chinese intellectuals were inventing new signs of inscription, American behavioral psychologists, Soviet psycho-economists, and Central Asian and Ottoman technicians were all experimenting with new scripts in order to increase mental efficiency and productivity. -
2S and 3S with Meanings
2- and 3-le*er words defined from Collins Official Scrabble Words 2019 (CSW19) This list excludes very common and obvious words. It does include some common ones that have uncommon endings (e.g. -s, -ed, -ing; -er, -est) when used as a different part of speech. All word can be extended with ‘S’ except those in bold. The -s extension is shown where it’s unexpected. AlternaEve spellings of words are also shown. Code: adj. = adjecEve, arch. = archaic, Aust. = Australian, Chi. = Chinese, coll. = colloquial, dial. = English dialect, Ger. = German, Heb. = Hebrew, interj. = interjecEon, Mao. = Maori, n. = noun, obs. = obsolete, offen. = offensive, pl. = plural, poet. = poeEc, S Afr. = South African, Sco. = Scosh, Shak. = Shakespeare, Spa. = Spanish, Spen. = Spenser, v. = verb Twos EF the leWer ‘F’ AA rough jagged lava in Hawaiian volcanos EH-s to express an enquiry (EHED, EHING) AB abdominal muscle EL elevated railway AD adverEsement EM printer's measure AE (Sco.) one (also YAE) EN printer’s measure (half an EM) AG agriculture ER-s European vetch AH-s to express pleasure (AHED, AHING) ES the leWer ‘S’ (also AAH) EW interj. of disgust AI three-toed South American sloth EX to cross out (EXES, EXED, EXING) AL East Indian tree FA musical note (also FAH) AN-s ‘ifs and ans’, things that might have FE Hebrew leWer (also FEH) happened but did not FY exclamaEon of disgust (also FIE) AR the leWer ‘R’ GI judo or karate costume AW (US) oh GO-s Japanese board game AX (US) axe GU Shetland violin (also GJU, GUE) AY aye; an affirmaEve vote HE-s BA the eternal spirit in EgypEan mythology HM interjecEon of though`ul consideraEon BE-s second leWer of the Hebrew alphabet (also HMM) (also BETH) HO-s to stop BI-s bisexual person ID part of the psyche BO (US) friend IN-s to harvest (INNED, INNING) BY-s side issue IO cry of joy CH (dial.) I JA yes DA heavy Burmese knife (also DAH) JO (Sco.) sweetheart (also JOE) DE of or from KA to serve (also KAE) DI pl. -
A Study of Linguistic Exchanges Between Chinese and Arabic
TRAMES, 2015, 19(69/64), 1, 51–71 ACCULTURATION THROUGH MEANS OF COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF LINGUISTIC EXCHANGES BETWEEN CHINESE AND ARABIC Ayesha Qurratul ain1 and Sabiha Zunnorain1 1Xi’an Jiaotong University China and 2Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi, Pakistan Abstract. Language plays a pivotal role in the integration of a minority within a host majority culture and thus the linguistic trends may serve as indicators of acculturation of a community aptly as proposed by Kim (1984). This research focuses upon investigating the change in communication patterns of Chinese Muslims to explore the extent of their integration in Chinese society during history and today. The cultural interactions between the communities belonging to different languages result in the lexical integration of languages and the emergence of exclusive lingua franca as well, as it happened in the case of Chinese Muslims. This language contact resulted in orthographic exchanges as well as ‘cultural borrowing’ through code-switching initially and borrowing loanwords with phonological and morphological adaptation afterwards. The data for this research has been collected from the locale of Xi’an Muslim community through participant observation, extensive interviews and personal communications. The archival data has been consulted for historical information and the qualitative methodology is applied to analyse the collected information. It concludes that bilingualism and acculturation are inversely correlated in the case of the Chinese Muslim minority. Keywords: Islam in China, acculturation, communication, linguistic and social integration, code-switching, linguistic exchanges between Chinese and Arabic, Chinese Arabic DOI: 10.3176/tr.2015.1.04 1. Introduction Kim (1988) suggested that when a cultural minority needs to settle and adapt to the culture of the host majority the first step is to acquire the communicative skills.