Re: VMs: Robert Firth on Arabic

[Vladimir Sazonov <vladimir@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey,
it is a fantastic language, and it has a wonderful grammar, you should 
enjoy the way of word construction in arabic...
And only an araber can spell "aburil".

Vladimir Sazonov
http://voynich.naobum.de


Knox Mix wrote:

> Hello Vladimir,
>
> And thanks. Somehow a paperback book, Arabic in a Nutshell, survived 
> two purges of books from my library in the past decade. I cannot 
> distinguish a jiggle from a squiggle without a magnifying glass and 
> the pages come unglued when I turn them. I will print your message and 
> clip it to the book. The introduction will be about as far as I go 
> with the book. VMS is left to right and top to bottom. A Semetic 
> Leonardo? Maybe just as likely a European along the land and sea 
> interface. All depending on whether this is the right track.
>
> Ciao ...... Knox
>
> vladimir@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Arabic is not so simple as Robert Firth supposes.
> >
> > (1) Blanks between word and  between letters inside a word are not 
> > very clear.
> > Some letters need a small blank after them.
> > (2) Vowels can be written and can be omitted
> > (3) Points above and below consonants are very sufficient. If they 
> > are omitted,
> > the text is still readable but poor recognisable.
> > For example, B,T,N,I share the same letter with different points 
> > above and below.
> > (4) the end of the previous word makes change of the beginning of the 
> > next word
> >
> > For example, BISMILLAH-IRRAHMAN-URRAHIM, is actually a composition of 
> > the following parts:
> > Bi-SMI-ALLAHI-AL-RAHMANU-AL-RAHIMI
> >
> > So, here is a lot of ways to encript of arabic text
> > 1.ignoring vocals / not ignoring vocals - it is a common to omit the 
> > vocals
> > 2.using acustical consonant change at word connection / not using 
> > this consonant
> > change
> > 3. ignoring the punctuation difference between consonants / not 
> > ignoring such
> > difference
> > 4. Ignoring/not ignoring the formal suffix "-UN" at all the subjects, 
> > that is
> > not prononsed
> > 5. Using different rules to set blanks between words and particles
> > 6. Encipher left-to-the-write or right-to-the-left
> >
> > These 6 points are enough to make it a difficult recognising of the 
> > cipher
> > structure for arabic.
> >
> > What are the arguments for arabics?
> > (1) In some marginal cases of enciphering, the Entropy becomes low.
> > (2) the letters have different initial and final form, dependent on a 
> > blank
> > before and after it
> > (3) practically each "legal" combination of letters (see a Stolfi's 
> > grammar)
> > becomes a legal word
> > (4) the blanks have not very striong meaning, the statistical 
> > distribution of the 2-letter combinations is very similar
> > to the distribution of 2-letter combinations of letters before and 
> > after the blank.
>
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