In addition to that, in the 19th century (and even before) in
Istanbul, many different ethnic groups were interacting and it was not
very uncommon to find different languages written in different
alphabets, such as Turkish language with an Armenian alphabet. Arabic
letters might have been used for many different languages in Istanbul
for different purposes.

Sinan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
To: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 00:45
Subject: Re: Digits shapes [OT]


> 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.
> --
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