Talk:هن

North Levantine Arabic
Moved discussion from my talk page SarahFatimaK (talk) 08:05, 11 August 2021 (UTC):

Hi!

Thanks for reinstating. I RFD'd it last year during a cleanup crusade, but my reasoning was way too shaky (Google results don't actually give real statistics on vernacular Arabic, go figure) and I've come to understand that ⟨هنه/هنة⟩ is just as common for people who tell apart /-e/ and /-i/ as ⟨⟩ is for people who don't.

But is ⟨⟩ as common as either of them? The pronoun doesn't have as strong a connection to Fusha's as  and  do to their Fusha equivalents, so it seems like there's less reason for people to spell it without a final vowel letter (contrary to the pronunciation, I mean) than there is for the singular pronouns. And, even though anecdotes of course can't be treated as actionable, I feel like I don't see ⟨هن⟩ nearly as often online as ⟨هني⟩ or ⟨هنه/هنة⟩. Dunno. Do you happen to know if there's a preferred spelling across formal publications on Levantine? And it's your call since you're currently the active NL/SL editor (thanks for the good work!), but do you think the main form should be at one of those other two pages instead of at ? — M. I. Wright (talk, contribs) 05:11, 11 August 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi, thank you for your feedback.
 * Since I'm no expert on North Levantine Arabic and there is no standard orthography, I can't really answer the question which spelling is the most common one. I chose as main entry, because it resembles the MSA spelling and shows the ethymology as well as for consistency with  and . SarahFatimaK (talk) 06:34, 11 August 2021 (UTC)