Re: Digits shapes [OT]

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 236
Date: 2001-06-11

Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> Antoine Leca wrote:
> > [...] I think that the early mathematicians,
> > particularly the Spanish ones, who adopted the Arab glyphs,
> > were actually writing in Arabic! ;-)
>
> BTW, a totally unrelated question: has any European language ever been
> written in Arabic letters? Either when Arabs dominated Spain and Sicily or
> (more recently) when Turks dominated the Balkans.

Sure: Albanian, Belarusian, and Bosnian, and probably others.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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