PROPOSAL FOR THE TRANSCRIPTION OF ARABIC WORDS INTO SLOVAK

• Authors: Khidayer E. , Jarunek E.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Especially in the recent years, a considerable number of foreign words has emerged in the Slovak media and literature, among them many originating in languages using other than Latin-based scripts. These words often appear in variable shapes, apparently without any consistency. The article tackles the chaos existing in the transcription of Arabic words for the Slovak media and popularisation texts and suggests a set of rules for this purpose, trying to preserve the maximum of the original language phonology and, at the same time, to make the resulting form as simple as possible, either for printing or for reading. To avoid ambiguities arising from the use of grapheme clusters such as 'th', the proposed rules sacrifice a limited number of phonemes, viz. the Arabic underscored t and d, which graphically merge into t and d respectively. Similar is the fate of the so-called emphatic consonants, usually transliterated with 'dotted' characters. The article puts a special emphasis on preserving the phonological quality and quantity of Arabic vowels, both of which can be easily rendered in the written Slovak language. The same holds true for the quantity of Arabic consonants, if present. Attached to the article is a list of the most frequent Arabic proper names occuring in the field of politics.

Keywords

EN

ARABIC-SLOVAK TRANSCRIPTION; CONSONANTS; PHONOLOGY; WOWELS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 38-51
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Khidayer E.

author

Jarunek E.

• E. Khidayer, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06SKAAAA00842026