Re: Qur'an = Arabic (was: Re: Tr.: L'alphabet latin serait-il d'or

From: Peter T. Daniels
Message: 3292
Date: 2004-07-31

Michael Everson wrote:
>
> At 15:53 -0400 2004-07-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >And millions of alloglot Muslim boys have memorized the entire text in
> >Arabic and can recite it without any knowledge of its meaning.
>
> Millions? That text is rather long.

"About as long as the New Testament."

They don't have much else to study.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...

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