#Arabic

Amazing development in #Arabic language newspaper #digitization. The Waqa'i Misriya is now largely available from the BnF via #Gallica for the years 1829-1839. #NEH funding. Congrats and thanks to Adam and Mercedes.

Announcement:
https://sites.duke.edu/cairemoderne/2023/09/28/al-waqa%CA%BEi%CA%BF-al-mi%E1%B9%A3riyya-online-1829-1839-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%A1/

“LEILA is a European cooperative project, which aims to promote the translation and dissemination in Europe of contemporary Arabic literature.” https://leila-arabicliterature.com/the-leila-project/what-is-leila/ #Arabic #literature #translation

ولد الهدى فالكائنات ضياء
وفم الزمان تبسم وثناء

#Arabic #kufic #calligraphy

This is a great YouTube channel for Arabic learners. FAO anyone having a hard time with the lack of grammar instruction on Duolingo.

#Duolingo #Arabic #LanguageLearning

من مقتنياتي، لوحة لأستاذي أستاذ الخط الكوفي صلاح عبد الخالق.

#Arabic #kufic #calligraphy

#Italy #Turín - Italian #farright MP calls for museum director to be sacked for being ‘racist towards Italians’
Christian Greco, who manages the Egyptian Museum in Turin, offered discounted tickets to #Arabic speakers https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/22/italian-mp-calls-for-museum-director-to-be-sacked-for-being-racist-towards-italians

@nizarus @cell @kinoko @hj nothing much to bother you. Cell was just figuring out if there are any #Arabic #fedi instances. A subject to to which I am interested too.

Some quick #Bywgraffiadur browsing of the digital holdings of the #NationalLibraryWales and I stumble over a short appreciative bio of my fellow-#German, Prof Hermann Ethé. He was a leading scholar of #MiddleEast languages and manuscripts, most prominently in #Arabic, #Persian and #Turkish, and came to #Aberystwyth, #Wales, to teach German alongside the languages of his actual area of expertise. Within a few weeks of the outbreak of #WWI he was chased out of town by an anti-German mob and died in Bristol in 1917 mostly of a broken heart of having been treated so shamefully. The uni, to their credit, always stood by him and undertook countless appeals to the UK government to gain a pension for Ethé.

We still need to write up his biography in the Dictionary.

#histodons

Image source: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/5905457

Edits day! Let’s get this book on the road.

Incidentally, this is the last day for pre-orders. I intend to send files to the printer tonight, which means the price goes up from tomorrow!

https://majnouna.com/shop/books/
#alphabets #Kufic #arabic

Yet another #Arabic fail: the head image of this article depicts Arabic letters disconnected and arranged backwards (left-to-right instead of the correct right-to-left). @guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making

Edited to include detail image, which should read السلام عليكم

hrm.. shit

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII is doch richtig gezählt oder?

Shit, wenn du im grunde dein ganzes leben mit arabischen ziffern lebst aber dieses eine spiel ausgerechnet die neu zu bauenden flotten in römischer zahlschrift die angriffsflotten durchnummerieren will.

#Arabic #Numerals #Arabische #Zahlen #Römische #Zahlschrift #SciFi #Gaming #RandomShit ;)

P.s.: Ja natürlich is das richtig gezählt, andere quellen waren eh schneller. ;)

Special thanks to Maram Hasanain and team who have shared their LLMeBench framework, designed to accelerate and simplify evaluation and benchmarking of large language models.

It is modular & language agnostic to encourage experimentation with #LLMs for #multilingual
studies content.

The framework currently hosts recipes for a diverse set of #Arabic NLP tasks using OpenAI’s GPT and BLOOMZ models.

Code:
https://github.com/qcri/LLMeBench

Paper:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.04945.pdf

The text "Alfiyya" by Ibn Malik is a rhyming book on #Arabic grammar. Originally intended for beginner students, it is still studied to this day, with numerous commentaries.

The author, commonly known as Ibn Malik, was a Andalusian (Modern day Spain) linguistic who lived in the 1200s.

Here's a longer explanation of this book by Shaykh Joe Bradford (only the introduction is Arabic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0IlkMXj_SY

You can buy modern publications!

آخر تحديث على دعم المعادلات الرياضياتية العربية في ليبرأوفيس

#LibreOffice #Arabic #math

Masader has been a precious effort to catalogue all #public #Arabic #datasets.

See: https://arbml.github.io/masader/

The team currently has 612 annotated datasets. However it has observed a decrease in adding the datasets #metadata. If you can contribute, please use the following form and help them in their effort:

https://forms.gle/JnMrJjHumT6ktK9cA .

@LisaKalayji

Interactive:

https://www.madinaharabic.com/learn-arabic.html

Learn with an online teacher:

https://www.alqalaminstitute.org/resources/nahw-resources/fstu-arabic-resources

The book Avurumiyyah is a great primer too, but it was written for Arabic-speaking people. It is concise at 30 pages. I recommend reading it after doing a primer in English.

#arabic #languagelearning

@pfriedma This is an exceedingly common and hilarious problem.
From a tech perspective, I'm surprised its still an issue in 2023.

I'm not a native #Arabic speaker, but I would find this difficult to read. Why? Because there are certain patterns of words that visually get broken up. (kinda like how no one reads every letter, but it becomes an image you can spot)

In #Arabic, if two synonyms are used apart, they mean the same thing.

And if they are brought together, their shades of meanings are emphasized.

I recently saw this in الظن (al-dhann) and التخمين (al-takhmeen), the former means speculation and the latter means conjecture.

@pfriedma omg yeah. It's often insulting. This issue could be solved solely by Adobe including RTL support in all their product versions, but for some reason, their text tool still does not support RTL in 2023, and you'd have to use a separate RTL text tool, which is only available in MENA versions, to type in Arabic. Come on Adobe, text editors figured this out in '98!

#adobe #rtl #arabic

I see this pretty often. My insurance occasionally sends me my bill with a fact sheet that's in "multiple languages" but Urdu, Arabic, and Farsi are all typeset backwards. Is this just a thing that #arabic speakers get used to?

One of the best collab 🙌

Alan Walker + Zena Emaad

#music #song #alanwalker #zenaemaad #arabic #english #lyrics #collab

An in-depth review of #languagetransfer
which teaches you

#Spanish
#Arabic
#Turkish
#German
#Greek (new)
#Italian
#Swahili
#French
#Inglés para hispanohablantes

And as well a course about #music as a language

And is purely #donation based
#Languagelearning
#learninglenguages
#Polyglott
#Mihalis uses the #thinkingmethod

https://www.alllanguageresources.com/language-transfer/

It's a #duolingo alternative

The two big fields of the #Arabic language are:

* Sarf - Word morphology/patterns. The English equivalence of this would be how the versions of Run, Ran, Runner, Runnng, etc.
* Nahwa - Arabic Grammar

The 3rd field of study is called Balagha (rhetoric)

To make clear:

أَوْضَحَ - He made clear
يُوْضِحَ - He makes clear
إِيْضاح - Making clear

This is on Form IV.

#Arabic

Ok, translate this to #arabic :

%b %d, %Y, %H:%M %Z

I suggested :

%b %d %Y، %H:%M %Z

Notice usage of « ، » instead of latin « , »
Do you know where can I get a preview of it?

#strftime or #glibc

This is a manuscript of the famous primer in Arabic grammar, Al-Ajrumiyya. It was originally written for young students and is still studied by introductory students of classical #Arabic.

I personally still refer to it as a reference!

Which #Arabic words would you like to learn?

Arabic word:

أعْرَضَ - He showed disinterested
يُعْرِضُ - He shows disinterest
إعْراضٌ - Disinterest

This is on a category called Form 4.

#Arabic

#Language beyond borders: the expanding horizons of #queer #Arabic

#Takweer

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/language-beyond-borders-the-expanding-horizons-of-queer-arabic/

Most languages have Singular and Plural.

#Arabic has an additional: Dual

For example:
* A witness is شاهد (shaahid).
* Two witnesses is شاهدان (shaahidaan)
* Two or more witnesses شاهدون (shaahidoon)

I am posting about the Arabic language, words, history, grammar, unique attributes, etc.

Please boost/retweet/retoot!

#Introduction #arabic

While there are multiple modern dialects of #Arabic, similar to English dialects, most people write and can converse in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

MSA is a simplified version of Classical Arabic.

And all dialects are ultimately evolutions of classical Arabic.

One of my classmates graduated from his studies program and is now in Egypt to study Arabic full time.

#Arabic

Recently I received an e-mail with pictures which touched me, and which showed me how important it is to think about diversity when creating illustrations.

The photos were taken in a school at a hospital run by an international medical organisation that operates in the Middle East and showed children reading the #Arabic translation of Ada & #Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream.

Here my blog entry about it:
https://k7r.eu/importance-of-more-inclusive-illustrations/

I wish Duolingo would give us a break with the inductive learning sometimes and just *explain stuff*. Arabic is so different from English, and it would spare me a lot of unnecessary mental effort to just have the grammar and syntax explained, especially since there's no teacher to go to with questions on an app.

#Duolingo #Arabic #LanguageLearning

How does one transliterate a hard G in Levantine? I know some words use ك but sometimes that sound doesn't feel like the best fit. I also know Egyptian uses ج but don't think Levantine does in that regard?

#arabic #language #languagelearning #levantine #lebanese

1959 Pedal Steel Exotica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-vVc7lXrpM

https://word.undead-network.de/2023/09/12/1959-pedal-steel-exotica/
#arabic #exotica #instro #slave #SlaveGirl

أعمل حاليا على دعم المعادلات الرياضياتية العربية في ليبرأوفيس، النتائج مبشرة حتى الآن.

#LibreOffice #Arabic #math

Okay, wow, I found a place where the #medieval #Syriac author Ishaq #Shbadnaya misinterpreted the dictionary of Bar Bahlul.

Shbadnaya uses the term Peutah (ܦܘܛܗ), which he glosses as "Matthew the Evangelist." The relationship between the two was opaque even after I looked up the entry in Bar Bahlul's dictionary (pictured).

In 1901 Robert Payne-Smith published a Syriac lexicon, based in part on Bar Bahlul's dictionary. Payne-Smith helpfully identified Greek words for as many of Bar Bahlul's entries as he could. Payne-Smith's entry is pictured as well.

So Bar Bahlul included the Greek word πότε in his dictionary, defined correctly as "when?" But Shbadnaya incorrectly interpreted the question "when?" as the name Matthew (one letter off in #Syriac, the exact same letters in #Arabic), and specified that he meant Matthew the Evangelist...

A misunderstanding over five hundred years ago.

On that note: Do people with a native language that reads right-to-left like #Arabic, #Japanese or #Chinese actually find #FunctionalProgramming languages like :haskell: #Haskell easier to read? 🤔

to add on to this list (and article), it is good to read this article written in 2009 by Shaykh Husain Kadodia (from South Africa), explaining what the state of commercial publishing was like with regards to Islamic texts, their verification and the cutting of corners:

https://attahawi.com/2009/05/12/understanding-arabic-book-publications-an-enlightening-conversation-with-shaykh-husain-kadodia/

It is for this reason that I disagree with those who say copyright is not applicable in Islamic law (based on this blatant plagiarism).

#IslamicStudies #arabic

For those in the #IslamicStudies field, the following article about the best publishers and editors of Islamic texts in #Arabic will be useful when seeking to purchase copies of various textbooks/texts:

https://islamclass.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/the-best-editions-of-arabic-books/

Thank you, Nariman Youssef, for the rare pleasure of seeing my words translated into #Arabic 🙇🏻

‏يتساءل الشعر
‏في اعتداد بريء
‏هل يمكننا
‏بإعادة ترتيب الكلمات
‏في جملة
‏أن نعيد ترتيب العالم؟
‏ ⁦
#Poetry wonders,
with innocent grandiosity:
Can we reorder the world,
by rearranging the words
in a line of verse?

https://www.youtube.com/@Yahia.Lababidi

#translation #writing #life #universe #WritingCommunity #micropoetry

Ekzemploj de kirundaj vortoj kiu originas el la araba tra la svahila:

Skatolo: șundûq (ar.) sanduki (sw.) isandugu (rn.)

Horo: sa3a (ar) saa (sw) isaha (rn)

Merkato: sûq (ar) soko (sw) isoko (rn)

Ĉevalo: faras (ar) farasi (sw) ifarasi (rn)

Krajono: qalam (ar) kalamu (sw) ikaramu (rn)

Tendo ĥayma (ar) hema (sw) ihema (rn)

Sapo șābūn (ar) sabuni (sw) isabuni

(Bv notu: ankaŭ en esperanto "sapo" originas el la araba 🥰)

#esperanto
#lang_eo
#kirundi
#bantu
#arabic
#lingvoj
#lingvo

Getting ready to do another conference trip next week! (Haven’t actually used #DuoLingo for this trip—which will be to #Germany. My owling time has been spent on #Arabic.)

I have been consumed with binding artist books and writing the monograph that goes with them, but I expect to finish writing tomorrow! Now that I'm so close to printing, I'm opening pre-orders for the monograph: It's a chance to catch it at the early bird price but the window closes when the book goes to press. It will ship in October after my campaign fulfillment.
Order here: http://majnouna.com/shop/books

#arabic #abjad #Calligraphy #Kufic #scripts

@skobkin

Г being a hard K is reflected in گ being a modified ک in #فارسی #Farsi and #اردو #Urdu - i.e. the G is a modified #عربي #Arabic K

but for - "g" is often pronounced a bit softer in English - do you mean American English or all English (UK, Australia, India, etc.)?

we seem to translate G differently in at least one other example https://mastodon.social/@kirt/110984654304697767
the #Greek food #γύρος is called #Yiros in #Queensland but #Gyros in #NewYork

cc @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social @irtapil @TashTaylor

😎 Who else is on Duolingo?

#Arabic #LanguageLearning

Can anyone read and write (what I presume is) #Arabic? (It's from Morocco, if needed for any localisms)

A friend likes to send me postcards from wherever she travels telling me to "Shut up" with the help of a local 😄 I love it and I'm trying to document them all on a website (there are a lot!) but I want to provide locale-specific #AltText. Can anyone help me out with this one?

#Webdesign #CSS

Do you develop websites for both
#English (left-to-right; LTR) and
#Arabic (right-to-left; RTL)?

I found this very useful guide that contains
"Common Mistakes When Flipping to RTL #
Non-Arabic speakers make some common mistakes that are easy to spot."

"RTL Styling 101 - An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS"

By #AhmadShadeed
@shadeed9

النسخة العربية

https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling

This protestor’s sign in #Suwayda, shared on Twitter by a #Kurdish journalist from #Syria, pays tribute to Hevrin Khalaf in #Arabic. Khalaf was brutally murdered by a Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group during the 2019 Turkish invasion of northern Syria. These protestors, in other words, are protesting foreign-backed/sectarian/ #Islamist militarized rebels as well as #Assad, rebuking the former for claiming their anti-regime cause. It’s a dangerous and courageous position to take publicly

ﺧﺑﯾرة ﻓﻲ اﻷﻣم اﻟﻣﺗﺣدة ﺗطﻠﻖ دراﺳﺔ ﻋﺎﻟﻣﯾﺔ ﺗوﺛﻖ إﺳﺎءة اﺳﺗﺧدام ﻣﻣﺎرﺳﺎت ﻣﻛﺎﻓﺣﺔ اﻹرھﺎب ﻹﺳﻛﺎت اﻟﻣﺟﺗﻣﻊ اﻟﻣدﻧي

What do you think of this style of writing arabic on OHCHR website ?

Cc @khaled

https://www.ohchr.org/ar/press-releases/2023/06/un-expert-launches-global-study-documenting-misuse-counter-terrorism

#arabic

#I18n note: #Arabic has weird rules when it comes to counting things, which I haven't seen implemented properly often (or rather, I notice it more starkly when it's wrong than right). The rules are:
1: Use the singular form of the noun. The number can be added as an adjective after the noun for emphasis, but never write it in numerical form.
Correct:
مرة
مرة واحدة
Incorrect:
1 مرة
مرة 1
2: Similar to 1, use the dual form of the noun which encodes the number in it. The number can be added as an adjective after the noun for emphasis, but never write it in numerical form.
Correct:
مرتان / مرتين
مرتان اثنتان / مرتين اثنتين
Incorrect:
2 مرة
2 مرتين
مرتين 2
3-10: use the plural form of the noun. It's ok to use numerical forms from this point onwards.
Correct:
3 مرات
ثلاث مرات
Incorrect:
3 مرة
11-99: use the singular form of the noun.
Correct:
11 مرة
Incorrect:
11 مرات
100, 1000, 1000000, etc: use the singular form.
Correct:
100 مرة
1000 مرة
Incorrect:
100 مرات
1000 مرات

Can we talk about how beautiful Arabic architecture is???

#arabic #architecture #arabia #arabisch

Suggest a translation for "Live feeds" in #arabic.

And 5 الوصلات الحية أو المباشرة.

#العربية

Read the Room
This Arabic frieze, presumably a quote from the Quran, continues all the way round the room.
Alhambra, Granada, Andalusia.
#photography #FensterFreitag #Arabic #Alhambra #Granada #Andalusia

@typolis
The #Arabic #script ”Carmatica“ is possibly a script used by the Qarmatians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qarmatians
(»The word "Qarmatian" can also refer to a type of Arabic script.« Josef W. Meri (2005). Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 134. ISBN 978-1-135-45596-5.)

I have a #historical text from 1800 in which an old #Arabic #script with the Latin name "Carmatica" is mentioned.
Does anyone know what typeface this could be?

Looks like Autumn really is the time to be in Britain. September in Reading.. Reading town is so easy to get to by UK Train, and so appropriately named for Tyopgraphical concerns. I hope some of you will be able to make this event successful!

"Typodiversity is an open, participatory event series combining talks and workshops on the intersection of research and practice in typography and type design."

http://typodiversity.net

#Arabic
#OpenLearning
#Typography
#Research

The disinformation surrounding Koran burnings in Sweden

Immediately after the incident, the volume of #Russian-language false information about #Sweden rose by several hundred per cent, according to the MPF, as did #Arabic-language information about the events.

Ordinary social-media users, in turn, amplified the information without checking its accuracy. In #Iraq, citizens were so enraged that they attacked #Swedish diplomats.

https://www.ft.com/content/0ac9e1a9-2aad-47d9-83fb-4839e9b31b33?sharetype=blocked

#Ukraine #Russia #Koran #propaganda

Arabi.gay is a server for LGBTQIA+ people who are Arabs, from the SWANA region or Arabic speakers (including all dialects). Members have to be over 18.

:Fediverse: https://arabi.gay (in Arabic)

For more info see their About page at https://arabi.gay/about or contact their admin @ishraaf

#FeaturedServer #العربية #Arabic #Arab #Arabs #SWANA #SouthWestAsia #Asia #NorthAfrica #Africa #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Queer #Gay #Lesbian #Bisexual #Trans #Questioning #Intersex #Asexual #Ace #Bi

ok went to get a second coffee

Roi Dubois
Cafe • Coffee
https://omaps.app/4ne7hko321/ any suggestions for its #Arabic name?

Having trouble transcribing the #Arabic name of the cafe, if someone cares to help

update: فضاء سلا according to @WahbAllat

Mopped it all up with some lovely Syrian-style #flatbread and it was utterly delicious.

The service was lovely, and they gave us a complimentary glass of #Arabic #tea

(I'm not actually a fan of tea, but I drank most of it to not be discourteous. A judicious dod of sugar helps.)

What makes an #Arabic Fusha localization work? 🕹

Fusha 🏝 (aka Modern Standard Arabic) is the lingua franca of the Arabic-speaking world.

It’s seen as the “official” Arabic register and forms the bedrock of our education, literature, and media consumption!

We explore 3 different localizations in this article, covering the spectrum of Fusha’s usage in Game localization to find what works, what doesn't, and why:

https://blog.seifchaib.com/en/fusha-in-arabic-localization/

Al Jazeera pri Esperanto (en la araba, subtekstoj haveblas): عاداها هتلر وستالين وأمر الخميني بتدريسها.. ما قصة الإسبرانتو؟

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBzLNXOtbfk

#Esperanto #araba #arabic #video #jutubo #aljazeera #language

#الإسبرانتو

#arabisch #levantine #arabic #levante #soundoflove #love #language #languagelearning #languages Wanna know my favorite app? Just ask.

#Introduction: I'm a #nonprofit development manager for an org based in #SF, following a former life teaching #sociology. My rescue spaniel/corgi mix (?) is the best #dog ever (as is yours! every dog is the best dog!). Longtime #yoga and #meditation practitioner, unambitious #runner, novice student of #Arabic and #tarot. #Feminist af. #Labor #union member. #Liberation for all.

https://youtu.be/xWXKw1hxdZw
Now this is interesting. Apparently the arguments over what music belongs to whom happen everywhere. @liztai just shared a traditional #Malaysian dance that seems like what I expect from a culture with #Buddhist influences.

https://youtu.be/3Y9aHjqU-mQ
The dance above sounds #Arabic influenced. Both are very beautiful. After a long enough time EVERYTHING becomes traditional. Why can't we just enjoy the music - and the humanity?

Fifty-something-year-old #gay #man of German and Irish ancestry interested in #Linux, #Arabic, #العربية, #French, #français, #classicalmusic, #ethics. #introduction

Hi #TwitterMigration arabi.gay is a small instance for LGBTQIA+ people who are #Arabs, #Arabic speakers, #Muslim or from the #SWANA region, or allies. Basically if you are ok with having arabi.gay in your username and are fine with the rules you're welcome here.
#Gay #Queer #Arab
#wardiPublicPost

The Conference on #Arabic #NLP

WANLP2023

https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/

has posted its five shared tasks:

1. NADI #Dialect Identification
2. ArAIEval - Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation
Detection in #Arabic Text
3. #Qur'an QA 2023
4. WoojoodNER
5. #Arabic Reverse #Dictionary

For more on how to participate and the respective deadlines check:

https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/shared-tasks

I created a #logo for arabi.gay! It's the same #mastodon logo, but I rotated the m on it's side and edited it to make the letter ع for عربي (arabi), and added the #rainbow. The background bubble-elephant-thing kinda looks like the letter م, so that almost completes the #Arabic acronym for LGBT (م.ع.).
#wardiPublicPost

An uninterrupted year of #Arabic! Hope to keep practicing this summer. #Duolingo

Alright, this campaign launches on June 1st! Here's a video preview of the Book of Abjad itself: https://vimeo.com/831189624

Other rewards include the Abjad Story monograph, specimen posters & original artwork. Click "notify me" here to know the moment it goes live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/majnouna/the-book-of-abjad

Boosting much appreciated!

#ArtistBook #kickstarter #Arabic #BookArts

العناء في الابتداء

Hardships are in Beginnings

#lettering #arabic #ArabicCalligraphy #arabiclettering #Calligraphy #mastoart

Big #Amsterdam type news!
—
Laura Captan just launched her own foundry for Arabic type Ama Foundry.
—
The foundry is named after her mother Amal and also has a section with stories about #Arabic type.
https://www.amafoundry.com/stories
—
https://www.amafoundry.com
#typedesign #foundry

#introduction
#Brussels
#literature #linguistics #AncientGreek #arabic #duolingo
#SharingEconomy #LibraryOfThings
#LongCovid #MentalHealth
#feminism #ableism #anticapitalism #antifa #activism #anarchy #ClimateCrisis