Tifinar is another bidi. Tamashek is the language.
Used (very slightly now) by the (decreasingly) nomadic Tuareg in Mali, Algeria, and
Sudan.

gabriella

IntelliGirl Design
www.intelligirldesign.com
Somerville, MA
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From: Tex Texin <tex@...>
Reply-To: qalam@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:32:19 -0400

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>Hi,<BR>
><BR>
>I am fleshing out a small page on bidi and I would like to list scripts and<BR>
>languages written in scripts that are bidi.<BR>
>I would appreciate your help in validating the information I have. I grabbed<BR>
>it from some other web pages and some of it seems specious or confused to me.
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><BR>
>For bidi scripts I have:<BR>
><BR>
>Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Thaana<BR>
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><BR>
>For bidi languages I have:<BR>
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>Adighe, Algerian Tribal, Arabic, Avesta, Baluchi, Berber, Dargwa,<BR>
>Farsi/Persian, Hausa, Hebrew, Ingush, Jawi/Javanese Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kurdish<BR>
>(Sorani), Kök Turki, Ladino, Landha, Maldivian, Manchu, Middle Mongolian,<BR>
>Morrocan Arabic, old Malay, Pashto, Sindhi, Sogdian, South Arabic, Swahili,<BR>
>Syriac, Tajik, Thaana, Uighur, Urdu, Uzbek, Yiddish.<BR>
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><BR>
>Is Thaana both a script and a language?<BR>
>Are some of the languages in fact scripts? (Jawi?)<BR>
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>Should I replace the language Syriac with Assyrian and Neo-Aramaic? Others?<BR>
><BR>
>I saw Azerbaijani listed a RTL on one site. I thought it was written in latin<BR>
>and cyrillic. Is it every written in an RTL script?<BR>
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>I am hoping not to have to research each item individually.<BR>
>For this page, we really only need current languages, historic ones are not<BR>
>needed. Including historic ones is not a problem provided they are not<BR>
>controversial or add ambiguity or confusion of any sort. IE If you can point<BR>
>out the ones that might be confusing or unnecessary that will help.<BR>
><BR>
>As some languages are written in multiple scripts, I am considering<BR>
>identifying language-script pairs rather than just listing languages.<BR>
>Comments, as to whether that is better approach? (e.g. Yiddish-hebrew vs.<BR>
>Yiddish-latin)<BR>
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><BR>
>tia,<BR>
>tex<BR>
><BR>
><BR>
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