Hello everybody, on Samstag, 28. September 2019 at 06:08 Gleason <[email protected]> wrote re [SPAM] Re: Icons for language options
>>>> Would Somebody from Saudi Arabia know that? If so, then how about >>>> from Morocco? TB does have Turkey, which I suspect is similar to and >>>> different from other Arabic places. A person who uses the Turkish >>>> variety would recognize the name of his own variant in the font used >>>> in Turkey. >>> Besides which, I suspect Turks don't think of themselves as Arabs in >>> quite the same way that Egyptians and Lybians do. They are not Arabs, they are a people speaking a turcic language, leftover from one of those many nomadic horse riding invasions from the steppes in the North East of Asia, one of those peoples who suffered the fate that the door slammed shut behind them after they entered. >> They are not Arabs, they are Turks. And they changed from arabic >> letters to Latin letters almost 100 years ago. While the language we know as Turkish has incorporated a huge amount of words from Arabic (the most notable is kitap for book), it is a completely different language, part of the family of turkic languages which are spoken in Central Asia from Azerbaycan and Turkmenistan to Kazakstan and the Chinese province of Sinkiang, also known as East Turkestan. Side note on kitap: in original Arab it is kitab, with a voiced or sonant B at the end. Like German, the turkish language pronounces such endings voiceless, non-sonant. This is different from English (you recognize Germans speaking english this way). Kitab found its way into many languages, where ever the Islam penetrated. But the plural is language specific. In Arabic kuttub, in Turkish kitaplar, in Suaheli witab... Coming back to the issue discussed here: tr would be the sign for Turkish, in latin script. For Arab I would recommend the letter 'ain: ع Make it a graphic icon, and underlay it with an ALT text which on hovering the mouse pointer over it, display the name of the language Googling for "icons for languages" finds a lot of sources for such icons. Cheers, Lüko Willms Frankfurt am Main Germany using: TheBat! 8.8.9.12 (BETA) OS: Windows 7 (NT 6.1 Build 7601 - Service Pack 1) CPU: AMD amd athlon(tm) 64 x2 dual core processor 4200+ MEM: 4097 MB
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