Coding of Cyrillic transliteration of Arabic words

Vasil Stanev

Hello,
I am reading a Russian textbook on the Arabic language and it got me wondering how Arabists write out that language using Cyrillic. There is a д with dot below, з with stroke below and so on. Has anyone coded such a spesialized font?

I would like to expand the question also to special non-historical cases of one alphabet used for transliterating foreign texts.

André G. Isaak

I would think coding such a font would simply involve making a standard cyrillic font with the appropriate combining marks, and either a mark-to-base feature or a ccmp feature which produces precombined accented characters.

As for how Arabists write Arabic using cyrillic, I would assume the book you are reading has some sort of key, no? I’d guess that з̱ would be ظ. I would have guessed that д̣ would be ض, but that would be strange if a combining macron below is being used to mark emphasis, so maybe it’s ث or possibly ج. Of course, I am just guessing.

André G. Isaak

n.b. ‘emphasis’ is a term used in Arabic phonology to refer to pharyngealization. — thought I should clarify that since I don’t know how widely known that term is.

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Романизация_арабского_письма has a column with the academic cyrillic translitteration of Arabic.

André G. Isaak

Apparently, one shouldn't rely on my guesses!

Vasil Stanev

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye said:

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Романизация_арабского_письма has a column with the academic cyrillic translitteration of Arabic.

Should have checked myself first! Thank You!!

Victor Gaultney

Our Latin/Cyrillic/Greek fonts should work for you, although I think you'll find that many standard operating system fonts will also work.