Talk:selamün aleiküm

RFV discussion: December 2018–April 2020
Marked for deletion with the comment "Not Turkish. No referances." &mdash; surjection &lang;?&rang; 10:38, 27 December 2018 (UTC)


 * The common Turkish version and spelling of this originally Islamic greeting, which however has largely lost its religious connotation, is selam aleykum, the standard response to which is ve aleykum selam. You also hear the variant aleyküm with a front vowel. When seriously meant to be Islamic, however, Turks will use something closer to the Arabic version, but adapted to Turkish phonology. This may be spelled in different ways, such as – I think most commonly – selamın aleyküm. The spelling “selâmün aleyküm” feels like a transliteration of Ottoman Turkish but can be attested; in fact, it is the spelling found at . Turkish spelling is highly phonetic and a spelling with ei is definitely nonstandard; this would correspond to a two-syllable instead of the correct one-syllable .  --Lambiam 15:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
 * RFV-closed; already cleaned up out of process, and the entry in question is now a redirect. &mdash; surjection &lang;??&rang; 00:03, 19 April 2020 (UTC)