Talk:ܜ

Arabic letter?
I don't think this should be considered an Arabic letter, afaik it is a modified form of the ܛ that has been used to represent the Arabic ظ. After all Garshuni is still considered a Syriac script.--Rafy 21:09, 10 October 2011 (UTC)


 * By that same reasoning, "İ" wouldn't be a Turkish letter, "ä" wouldn't be a Swedish letter, and "ơ" wouldn't be a Vietnamese letter, rather, they would all be Latin letters (even though they were never used in Latin). Garshuni is a Syriac script used to write the Arabic language, not Syriac. --334a 17:19, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * You make a good point here, but wouldn't this also mean that regular Syriac letters are Arabic as well? And by the way modified Latin alphabet is considered a native script for Turkish, Swedish and Vietnamese.
 * I personally think we should name letters according to the native script to which they belong. There exist for example some Arabic and Syriac literature in Latin script (Arabic chat alphabet is one example) but we still don't label those Latin letters as Arabic or Syriac since native scripts already exist.--Rafy 22:59, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Not to mention, what would you do with the Persian letters (ܭ) or Sogdian ones (ݍ)? -- Liliana • 23:01, 11 October 2011 (UTC)


 * "wouldn't this also mean that regular Syriac letters are Arabic as well?" -- Yes, although I personally don't know enough about Arabic or Garshuni to create those entries. Take a look at a, b, c, etc., which have separate entries for multiple languages.
 * "There exist for example some Arabic and Syriac literature in Latin script (Arabic chat alphabet is one example)" -- I don't know if I would call uses of the Arabic chat alphabet "literature", but that's just me. Maybe in a few years or decades if it really takes off and becomes a well-established form for writing Arabic, but right now I wouldn't give it the same status as Garshuni.
 * There are languages that have alternative scripts besides the "main" or "native" one (Serbian has Cyrillic and Latin; Chinese has traditional characters and Pinyin; Japanese has Kanji/Kana and Romaji). Sometimes, the native one has ceased to be the most frequently used (like Mongolian, which traded its vertically-written system for a Cyrillic-based script, though traditional Mongolian isn't completely dead). --334a 02:58, 12 October 2011 (UTC)