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


Philipp Strathausen wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> schrubte:
Leonid Gluhovsky wrote:
It's not that this letter is always used to represent "v". For
example, when "Tel Aviv" is written in Arabic, BAA is used for
both v's.
tall 'abi:b is etymological, the transliteration for Zikhron Ya'akov
has only etymologiical `ayn, the rest being based on modern israeli
hebrew.

What do you mean by etymological? (I'm not a scientist ;) I mean, Ya'akov
isn't just modern Hebrew. Aren't kof and bet etymological as well?

but an "etymological" (based on older forms or cognates_ transcription
or transliteration would have used cognate arabic qa:f (for hebrew qof
/ kof) rather than arabic ka:f (corresponds to hebrew kef), and arabic
ba:' (corresponds to beth).



Philipp

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