Okay. - Edit 1
Before modification by Legolas at 29/12/2011 10:03:23 PM
Oh, that language is daunting, I'll admit, but that's not an alphabet at all. Did consider hangul at one point, but it was the lack of world-class literature that swayed me away from it.
For some reason I'm really, really unenthusiastic about Korean. I'm sure it's an unreasonable prejudice, but we all have those, eh?
Odd. Doesn't appear in that order in my grammar.
Well, obviously I'm talking about Arabic alphabets here, the Persian one has some letters added in, in this case the gaf introducing itself between K and L... otherwise it should fit.
Regarding the order of the Arabic alphabet, it should be noted that there are in fact two orders; the modern one doesn't really seem familiar in any way other than the KLMN sequence, but the old one is remarkably similar to the orders of Hebrew and Greek (alif ba jim da / aleph bet gimel dalet / alpha beta gamma delta). Shame that they switched... presumably your Persian dictionary follows the new alif ba ta tha jim etc. sequence?
In the Thackston grammar, the alphabet starts alef, be, pe te, se, jim, che, he-jimi, khe, dâl...
Yeah. That's the modern Arabic order, only with more letters (the P doesn't exist in Arabic) and some different pronunciations (se instead of tha - does that mean Persian has no less than three different letters S?). Still, I'll stop confusing you.
Indeed, but it's a bit odd at the moment. Maybe in a week or so, when I have the time to study in earnest.
Yes. We should probably stop before getting another horizontal scrollbar, anyway.
Well, at least I'm not hurrying up to wait
Heh. Is that a common expression where you're from?