Talk:ࠂࠓࠉࠆࠉࠌ

RFV discussion: August 2017
This needs to be attested as Arabic. (I have not bothered to clean up the entry.) ? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:09, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not even clear that Arabic was ever commonly written in Samaritan script. I asked the creator on his talk page and he first gave me a link in which Arabic was written in Arabic script and when I pointed that out, he didn't respond further. --WikiTiki89 19:15, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * His contributions have been somewhat problematic... I suppose explaining that in Hebrew hasn't done any more good. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:33, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * He does seem to respond to feedback. He just often lacks the sense of self-doubt necessary to correct his own mistakes without help, which means it will take a while to teach him. Anyway, in this case I was asking for specific information, which if he fails to provide, we can delete these entries. --WikiTiki89 20:42, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Failed. --WikiTiki89 15:53, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

ࠄࠓ
Same problem here. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Failed. --WikiTiki89 15:53, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

ࠌࠍ
As above. --WikiTiki89 20:42, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Failed. --WikiTiki89 15:53, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

Attestation
Are...are you serious? No, the link I provided you didn't just show Arabic in Arabic, IT SHOWED THE ONLY THREE WORDS I MADE PAGES FOR IN THIS LANGUAGE. How did you miss the giant Samaritan Arabic letter that took up half the page? Come on! יבריב (talk) 20:13, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * First of all, you had a long time to reply already. Second of all, the caption says "Reproduction from the original manuscript in Samaritan Hebrew...", unlike the one below it in Arabic script, whose caption says "Reproduction from the original manuscript in Arabic...". --WikiTiki89 20:36, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I went through the Arabic manuscript, not only does most of the words in the 'Samaritan Hebrew' not translate to anything in Samaritan Hebrew, but it is letter-for-letter a transcription of the Arabic text, which is exactly what Samaritan Arabic is — Arabic written in Samaritan script יבריב (talk) 22:11, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I really can't tell if you're purposely lying or just extremely incompetent. Despite my unfamiliarity with the Samaritan script, I was able to toil through and transcribe it (possibly with some mistakes, and excluding supralinear markings). Here it is, with it's transliteration into the Hebrew alphabet:


 * As you can see, this is clearly Hebrew with some Aramaic thrown in. Not even close to Arabic. For comparison, I have also transcribed half of the Arabic version (with many mistakes, and with words I couldn't decipher marked with a question mark) and transliterated it into Hebrew script as well:


 * You can see that they are not even close to letter-for-letter equivalent. --WikiTiki89 21:37, 7 September 2017 (UTC)