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November 27

Tunisian alphabet?

I have a micro-conflict with a user. He claims there is the Latin alphabet for Tunisian, and he puts it in the articles concerning Tunisia. But I'm sure there is no any official alphabet, he just invented it himself and pushes his own agenda. Some time ago this "alphabet" was already mentioned here in the RD (diff). But the user went on and created a "Help:IPA" article pretending this alphabet is somewhat "official". I tried to correct the page, but in vain. By my opinion, what he is doing is an original research and disruptive editing. Probably, an attention to this user from the adminship is required, but I have no much interest, desire and time to make an official complain and escalate the conflict (I stumbled across the issue by accident). I do not remember if there are any admins here? However, there is a probability that I'm wrong (I'm always ready to accept that). So I ask fellow linguists to help and participate.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 11:21, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

I refer you and fellow editors to pages here on the Maltese alphabet which officially uses Roman characters, "the only Semitic language to do so" (per various sources, uncited). The Maltese language is mentioned as being "closely related" to Tunisian Arabic among the Maghrebi variants of Arabic. Of interest is Tunisian Arabic#Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft Umschrift giving the fairly recent but established history of using latin script for Tunisian. -- Deborahjay (talk) 14:09, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

As for me, I know that information and even more, I expanded a little the article about Maltese some years ago, but thanks anyway for your concern.--Lüboslóv Yęzýkin (talk) 11:04, 29 November 2015 (UTC)