From: Nik Taylor (yonjuuni@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 15:32:40 EST
Anton Sherwood wrote:
> I believe that is a more faithful transliteration, as Arabic does not
> distinguish long consonants in writing. Of course an even more faithful
> transliteration would be "sdm hsyn" ;)
Doesn't Arabic use a diacritic for geminate consonants?
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