On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 04:42:24PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > Just to make things really clear, Uyghur [the language] now uses > Arabic [the script], and uniquely allows hyphenation, contrary to all > the other languages using Arabic as a writing system.
That is the new, Chinese-imposed, orthography which is essentially a one-to-one mapping of the Latin-based orthography (that didn't gain much popularity), including the hyphens. The original Arabic-based orthography adopted by the Uyghur people didn't has such feature. Interestingly, in pre- and early Islamic manuscripts, words were cut whenever the line ends, even between joined letter; they would just resume the word on next line while retaining the letter form. Regards, Khaled
