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Name transcription

I've transcribed the name of the language according to Wikipedia:IPA for Arabic. If anyone has a problem with it, please discuss it here first before changing it. - AlexanderKaras (talk) 10:08, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Arabic language day

World Day of the Arabic language is the day the world celebrates all 30 July of each year in Arabic World Day of the Arabic language.

The above sentence from the lede is gibberish, the article it links to is junk, and even if it's correct, this kind of trivia doesn't belong in the lede. Before I nuke it, can anyone find a source that this thing actually exists? Other than copies of Wikipedia, I can't find any reference to this. The closest I found is that Arabic Language Day at the UN (as far as I know meaningful only within the organisation) is on 18 December. On the other hand, my Arabic is still pre-rudimentary, so I can't search for Arabic sources. HenryFlower 08:16, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gone. HenryFlower 16:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

greek cypriot? what the hell.

arabic has no influence on greek cypriot what so ever. greek cypriot is a kinde of greek slang. if ever turkish cypriot has influences of arabic. get it right.

Long Vowels Maintain the Stress

Some people think that long vowel ī in the word al-ʾinǧilīziyyah (الإنجليزيّة) absolutely looses its stress and the stress is only on -iyyah. I don't think so. Arabic world can contain more than one syllable: one is the main with high tone and one or two additional with low tone on long syllables. These are classical rules. Who can say something new about it? 62.220.33.64 (talk) 18:10, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Zwierzanski?

The two books by Michael Zwierzanski mentioned in the "Studying Arabic" section, Arabic: A Nebulous Nature and A Quintessential Handbook in the Study of Arabic Whimsy, don't appear to exist -- not on Amazon, not on ABE, and googling either title just brings up copies of the paragraph here. There does appear to be someone named Michael Zwierzanski who is involved in Arabic studies, but he doesn't appear to be at Brown and he doesn't appear to have written any books. Anyone have any insight into this? I never edit Wikipedia, just happened to notice and thought I'd say something. 09:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)