Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Lebanese alphabet was created

The Bachir Lebanese alphabet was actually created on August 1, 2010. It consists of 24 letters.

The letters are the following:

Note that P, V and X do not occur in Lebanese and that J is not used. Instead, only G is used, since G and J have the same sound in lebanese.

2 comments:

  1. I like it!

    But I have a question, is there a letter for each of the two different sounds: "j" (like jem3a) and "gh" (like ghadda)?

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  2. In this alphabet, G has the sound /j/ like in jeemԑa while Ġ (with a dot) has the sound /gh/ like in ġada.
    However, this is the old alphabet. The new alphabet removes all letters with diacritics and introduces both Greek and Cyrillic letters. In the new alphabet, G has been replaced by J and G has been replaced by the letter Φ (φada).

    Check out the new alphabet here: https://sites.google.com/site/blebaneselanguage/discover

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