At 20:33 -0400 2004-07-30, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > I have a bilingual Qur'an, with the Arabic text on one side and the
>> Mandenkan text in N'Ko script on the other.
>
>The "Mandenkan" is not a translation, it's an interpretation. See any
>published English version prepared by a Muslim.

Any translation of any text is a translation.
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