Timenn Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 That makes some sense. wau becomes digamma in greek.Digamma? What do you mean?They (Greek) dropped the Wau (F) later. But it is still noticable in some situations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemafakei Posted April 26, 2003 Share Posted April 26, 2003 Yes, but it's still recognised as a letter, but was merely omitted in later transcriptions; that is not to say that it was not once widely used.Anyway... I have found a guide to learning arabic; it's very complicated, though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Harkonnen Posted April 27, 2003 Share Posted April 27, 2003 no I'll stick to russian, tavarish ;D (comrade in russian) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caid Ivik Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 No, it's written as "tovarish" (tobapiuu - I have to use "i" as Ukrainians do to prevent confusion). Anyway, cyrillics is based on greek alphabet. Which was based on phoenician. And phoenician is from jewish letters some historians presume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor Harkonnen Posted April 28, 2003 Share Posted April 28, 2003 it has derived form the canaanite alphabet. and I can't write tavarish properly when I don't use cyrillic letters I wrote it how it is pronounced. I speak with moscow accent, and therefore I use that thing which is called vokalreduksjon in norwegian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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