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What language is it?: Like Arabic
This is a Guide for YUL staff to help identify scripts and which selector they belong to.
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Common languages at YUL
Arabic script
(RTL) can be used for these languages, plus many others:
Egyptian Arabic:
لغة وحدة بس ماتكفيش ابداً
Modern Standard Arabic: لغة واحدة لا تكفي
Moroccan Arabic:
واش كتعرف العربية؟
Arabic [Near East, Southeast Asia, South Asia]
Azerbaijani, Turkish [Near East]
Persian/Farsi, Baluchi, Pashto [Near East, South Asia]
Urdu, Brahui, Dari, Konkani, Kashmiri, Rajasthani [South Asia]
Bosnian, Kazakh, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Uyghur, Uzbek [Slavic/East Europe]
Malay, Tausug [Southeast Asia]
Hausa, Beja, Somali [Africa]
Syriac alphabet
(RTL) can be used for these languages:
ܘܗܘܬ ܟܠܗ̇ ܐܪܥܐ. ܠܫܢܐ ܚܕ ܘܡܡܠܠܐ ܚܕ.
Aramaic [Judaica, Near East]
Syriac [Near East]
Avestan
(RTL) can be used for:
Avestan [Near East, South Asia]
Pahlavi
(RTL) can be used for:
Avestan [Near East, South Asia]
Librarian for South Asian Studies
Rich Richie
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Contact:
Sterling Memorial Library, 212
Southeast Asia Reading Room:
Sterling Memorial Library, 214
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208240
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520
1-203-432-1858
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