Tag Archives: Arabic

Myriad varieties of Arabic

Posted 95 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Arabic is an interesting word. It is used very freely in the English speaking world (as a noun) to denote the language spoken by people from Somalia to Iraq, with very little recognition given to the fact that, as a …

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SEO in countries which don’t use Latin script

Posted 551 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Since 2009, Google has been the leading search engine in most countries in the world. This means that, on a global scale, whatever Google says about SEO goes. But the big exceptions to this rule are China, Japan, South Korea, …

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Localising Arabic 3: Arabish

Posted 643 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Arabic chat alphabet, also known as Arabizi and Arabish, is a an alphabet which enables Arabic-speakers to send messages using a roman keyboard. It was developed in the 1990s, when Arabic-text keyboards and software were (even) less widespread than they …

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Well supplied with porridge

Posted 744 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

In his book On The Life and Death of Languages, linguist Claude Hagège talks about Pomo, an Amerindian language spoken in Northern California. This language has a verb which means ‘to suddenly introduce words into a song that one was …

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Localising Arabic 2: script issues

Posted 762 days ago by Stephen Whiteley

Arabic is often considered to be the hardest language to localise. This is partly due to the fact that some Arabic-speaking countries still have a way to go when it comes to the development and diffusion of region-specific software and …

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