(fa) قرمز
(es) rojo
(en) red
(tr) kırmızı

(fa) نارنجی
(es) naranja
(en) orange
(tr) turuncu

(fa) زرد
(es) amarillo
(en) yellow
(tr) sarı

(fa) سبز
(es) verde
(en) green
(tr) yeşil

(fa) آبی
(es) azul
(en) blue
(tr) mavi

(fa) پنفش
(es) morado
(en) purple
(tr) mor





(fa)
این پرچم ایران است۔
پرچم ایران سہ رنگ دارد۔
رنگ ھای آن سبز، سفید و قرمز است۔

(en)This is the flag of Iran. The flag of Iran ha...

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OK, after having proved a little my new orthography, here I go with more issues.

A big one is punctuation. How do languages with an Arabic script deal with punctuation signs? Do they use the Western ones or other of their own? Because I'm aware Arabic goes just OK without punctuation.

I thought of using the fatha for the stress, using it only to mark stress when ambiguity appears, but not normally.

I need apostrophes anyway, and I think I can't do further without them.

I'll have a try with a little sentence.

English: This is a sample sentence in my new ortography.
Spanish: Esto es una frase de prueba en mi nueva ortografía.
loqu's Andalusian:

دێٔهێ اثێ ونۆٔ ديأ ژێبۆ پرۆباندۆ ا كٔريبي كۆن مي نوێبۆ ارفابێتۆ ي لا بێرداٍه كێ نۆ با مال۔ نتۆبيا مێ تێنگۆ كٍاكۆٔتومبرا ا لێێ مأ راپيدۆ، پێرۆ تۆ هێ پوێدێ ثوپێرا۔
گراثيأ ا تۆٔ لۆٔ كٍابێي يدۆ دێهاندۆ كۆمێنتاريۆٔ، مێ ثۆن مو وتيلێٔ۔

For a couple of days I have been trying my new Arabic alphabet and it's going pretty well. I still have to practise and read more quickly, but that's no big deal. Thank you for all your previous comments, they were really useful.

Soon I'll post something more in here.

I borrowed a book called "Starting Turkish" from my university's library. It is a very simple book, being its aim to teach foreigners the basics of Turkish language, focused on everyday conversations. I will post some lessons taken from that book here, hopefully it can be useful for whoever visits this blog. I won't start with the alphabet, since, besides being a really easy alphabet, it can be found in wikipedia as well as in many other sites of the internet.

He tomado prestado de la biblioteca de mi universidad un libro llamado "Starting Turkish". Es un libro muy simple, siendo su objetivo enseñar turco básico a los extranjeros, centrándose en las conversaciones del día a día. Pondré aquí algunas de las lecciones del libro, esperando que le sea a útil a quien visite esta página. No comenzaré a explicar el alfabeto, porque, aparte de ser muy sencillo, podéis encontrarlo en Wikipedia o en otros muchos sit...

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Hi,
I launched a website two weeks ago (languagesandnumbers.com) which aim is to learn how to count in as many languages as possible. How to write down numbers, any cardinal numbers, and to translate them in other languages. It started as a programming challenge to handle different numbering systems and scripts, including transliteration whenever possible, and now it's getting more and more interesting as a lot of languages do share the same structure for numbers (say digits are usually specific words, then you have the special cases of numbers from 11 to 19, the tens, how to link tens and units, the hundreds and thousands, the big scale numbers), with from time to time a different way to handle it, like the tens and units order, the big and short scale, the sheer meaning of some numbers.
The site supports now the following languages: Bulgarian,...

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