Re Roozbeh Pournader's message of 12 Jun 2003: > > Only as a personal name. The Prophet's name is pronounced Muhammed. > > Where? In Turkey?
Yes: you were talking about Turkey. > If that is the case, it's different from the way it's pronounced in > Iran and Saudi Arabia. Hardly surprising. > At least the way it is pronounced in Iran and Saudi Arabia is very > different. In Iran it is pronounced "mohammad". In Saudi Arabic it is > "muHammad". Correct. <...> > The point is: you need to choose a standard pronounciation if you want > to use the Latin script for the Persian language. And that's very > hard. "The Devil is in the details." I agree -- whichever way you pronounce Shaytan! Nigel _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
