Re: question about Arabic: representing foreign words with "v"


Harlan Messinger wrote:
chasseurmic@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Leonid Gluhovsky wrote:
Hello.

The fact that the Arabic alphabet is inadequate to represent all the
sounds of Farsi has nothing to do with Farsi being an Indo-European
language.

Yes, it has indeed. It is inadequate because arabic and farsi belong to
two different families of languages which have developed and stressed
importance on different phonemes.

.

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