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| xtremelingo Trilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6288 days ago 398 posts - 515 votes  Speaks: English*, Hindi*, Punjabi* Studies: German, French, Arabic (Written) | Message 9 of 14 15 November 2007 at 12:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to date a persian (farsi-speaking) gf, who's last name was Tajik.
Not sure how relevant or helpful that is. But I think it's pretty smart to go with Cyrillic for those reasons. The only thing is, I would always feel like something was missing if I didn't study the language's script itself or the language in it's script. I already despise using transliterations every now and then. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 24karrot Diglot Groupie United States speakingboricua.blog Joined 6385 days ago 72 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 14 15 November 2007 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not really a transliteration though. It's a form of Cyrillic modified to fit the sounds in Tajiki and is a native alphabet of the language, if that makes any sense. The only transliteration is with the vowels, which change a bit, but I think that's more related to Tajiki speech than the alphabet.
I kind of wish I were doing this language in Cyrillic because at least that way you GET vowels! Guessing at the vowels can be frustrating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eafonte Triglot Groupie Brazil Joined 6237 days ago 59 posts - 63 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, English Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 14 22 November 2007 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
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For those who know German and intend to learn tajik this site cms-sprachlabor.split.uni-bamberg.de/typo3/index.php?id=4598 will be very helpful. Edited by Eafonte on 22 November 2007 at 1:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Maikl Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6226 days ago 121 posts - 145 votes Speaks: German*, Dutch, English, Spanish Studies: Turkish | Message 12 of 14 23 November 2007 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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An interesting link; i would have thought that Tajik was a Turk language like Uzbek, Kazak and Uigur of China.
I'd say that a language of Indo-European background is definitely easier to learn than a semitic language like Arabic. But then again its a matter of choice and motivation. Personally, i don't 'like' foreign alphabets, and i actually did learn some Turkish; it was 'easy' at the beginning (no pronunciation problems, logical word structure), but i so far haven't got the hang of it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Talib Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6662 days ago 171 posts - 205 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (classical) Studies: Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 13 of 14 24 November 2007 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
I am somewhat surprised about this. I thought that Persian would have many more loan words than Turkish due to the language reforms that attempted to purge Turkish of all Arabic words. Edited by Talib on 24 November 2007 at 12:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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