Talk:Arabic Afrikaans

message: *Could someone with access to the book please get a clear image on to this sight. I think everyone would be interested. Also the Afrikaans version of the article compares the language of the Efendi Abu Bakr book with modern Afrikaans, would anyone like to put that here as well? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.49.242.230 (talk • contribs) 08:51, 14 May 2007
*: It would be nice of the Arabic bits could be shown in Arabic script (as well), as I guess they were in the original book. Or was it all transcribed to Latin characters from the start? Classical geographer 07:53, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: It's not clear for me, do this alphabet has some features not supported by the Unicode?
If yes, could you list them, I'm ready ho help with proposal to Unicode commitee to improve that limitations!
--Üñţïf̣ļëŗ (see also:ә? Ә!) 10:29, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode support 

message: I'm not sure the image on the right provides a very good example of Arabic Afrikaans, and it may not actually be Arabic Afrikaans. The translation provided at the bottom "Vote for Ohlsson. Plump for Ohlsson" is also very incomplete (quite apart from saying the same thing twice). What I read in bold Arabic script at the top in fact looks more like transliterated English: ڤوت فر هستر اولسون - vūt fr mstr 'ūlsūn (= 'vote for Mister Ohlsson' - only the long vowels are written in everyday Arabic). Perhaps the first three words were indeed used in Arabic Afrikaans (and perhaps local election posters were at the time in English only - this was evidently from Cape Town), but in that case it's an untypical example of the language. I've also tried to decipher the other lines (which aren't translated), and I've a sneaking suspicion the language may simply be Arabic, with admixtures of English (the words ڤوت هستر اولسون = 'vote Mister Ohlsson' appear once again, in the fourth and fifth lines). Perhaps significantly, it's signed 'A. B. Effendi, Arabic School', with no reference to Afrikaans. What I can also see are the words في بلد الكيپ - fī bld 'Āl-kīp (= 'in Town of the Cape (Cape Town)', with the first two words in pure Arabic - although nowadays the city is known as كيب تاون, as phonetic a translation as possible of the English name ('Kīb Tāūn'). However, I notice the use of the letters ڤ and پ, altered versions of 'f' and 'b' that are regularly used to render the sounds 'v' and 'p' (which don't occur in standard Arabic) - so maybe it is Arabic Afrikaans after all. Whatever the truth of the matter, I do think a better example could and should be provided.213.127.210.95 (talk) 16:13, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
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message: There is a distinction between the *spoken* Cape Malay variety of Afrikaans, Arabic influences as there are, and the *written* standard of writing it in Arabic, which this article is about. Most of the 200,000 or so Cape Malays write in the Roman script. Writing system does not determine the language. The 200,000 figure and infobox seem to contradict  this. As such, I’ll change it in due course, but leave this here for discussion. Harsimaja (talk) 14:09, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  200,000 speakers 

message: Where in the citation that says, the Eastern Arabic numerals were ever used? The literature provided had no mention of that. In addition to, the aforementioned numerals are closely related to the Middle Eastern culture and South Asia (a slightly modified version). --Mahmudmasri (talk) 23:03, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious