Belarusian Arabic alphabet
The Belarusian Arabic alphabet was created in the 16th century in order to be able to reproduce the Belarusian language using the Arabic script .
It consists of 28 letters and differs in a few details from the ordinary Arabic alphabet:
- The following Turkish-Persian characters were used to reproduce the sounds Sh, Tsch and P ("ж", "ч" and "п"), which do not exist in the Arabic language: پ چ ژ.
- New letters have been invented to denote the sounds «дз» and «ц»: ࢮ and ࢯ.
- No special character was introduced for the sound "ў"; the same symbol was used here as for «в».
The Belarusian Arabic alphabet was used by Belarusian Tatars until the 1930s. In the 14th to 16th centuries they had given up their own language and used the old Belarusian language , but with Arabic characters.
table
Vowels are not listed here because - as in Arabic - they are only displayed with diacritical marks.
| Cyrillic | Latin | Arabic |
| Б, б | B, b | ب |
| Ц, ц | C, c | ࢯ |
| Ч, ч | Č, č | چ |
| Х, х | CH, ch | خ |
| Д, д | D, d | د |
| ДЖ, дж | DŽ, dž | ج |
| Ф, ф | F, f | ف |
| Ґ, ґ | G, g | غ |
| Г, г | H, h | ه |
| Й, й | J, j | ى |
| К, к | K, k | ق |
| Л, л | Ł, ł | ل |
| М, м | M, m | م |
| Н, н | N, n | ن |
| П, п | P, p | پ |
| Р, р | R, r | ر |
| С, с | S, s | ص |
| Ш, ш | Š, š | ش |
| Т, т | T, t | ط |
| Ў, ў | Ŭ, ŭ | و |
| В, в | V, v | و |
| З, з | Z, z | ض |
| Ж, ж | Ž, ž | ژ |
| ЦЬ, ць | Ć, ć | س |
| ДЗЬ, дзь | DŹ, dź | ࢮ |
| ЛЬ, ль | L, l | ل |
| НЬ, нь | Ń, ń | ن |
| СЬ, сь | Ś, ś | ث |
| ЗЬ, зь | Ź, ź | ز |
| ТЬ, ть | TJ, tj | ت |
| КЬ, кь | KJ, kj | ك |
| ' | - | ع |
| Ь, ь | - | - |
See also
literature
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- Антонович А.К. Белорусские тексты, писанные арабским письмом, и их графико-орфографическая система. Вильнюс, 1968.
- Suter, Paul. Alfurkan Tatarski. The Lithuanian-Tatar Koran-Tefsir, Cologne, Weimar; Vienna: Bölau, 2004, Slavonic and East European Review 83/3