Talk:wa alaikum assalam
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Seems to be transliterated Arabic, is this really "English"? I'm going to avoid verifying it myself as I know nothing about Arabic. Mglovesfun 11:33, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- The Arabic is وعليكم السلام. As far as I’m concerned, the transliteration should be deleted or redirected to وعليكم السلام. —Stephen 13:52, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I've heard this (and the greeting it responds to) spoken by people who then continue to speak in English. So I assume that it has entered the language. SemperBlotto 21:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- I agree that this is no longer just Arabic but penetrated at least the speech of Muslims speaking in different languages, and people speaking with Muslims, like inshallah, not sure if the spelling is right here, as it could be spelled in different ways. It is normally "mispronounced" in English and all the other languages missing the voiced pharyngeal fricative consonant (/ʕ/), written in Arabic with letter ع, represented in Wiktionary as 3 or ` (wa-3aláykum as-salaam). Anatoli 01:31, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- Presumably, [ʕ], in English, would be substituted with [ʔ] (a glottal stop). † ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 10:50, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
- Seems attestable at b.g.c. with this spelling among those used. [1]. Presumably someone will determine the most common forms. DCDuring TALK 10:56, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
RFV failed, entry replaced with a redirect to وعليكم السلام per Stephen G. Brown. (Dunno if that's really the best approach, but it should be O.K. till someone figures out a better one, and/or demonstrates that this meets the CFI as English.) —RuakhTALK 20:02, 19 December 2009 (UTC)