Talk:جلابية

the etymology of the word galabia might have its roots in the coptic word κολοβεα please check this[1] thanks--Ramsis II 02:03, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

• thanks for changing the etymolgy, however, I really meant to say that the root is Coptic not Greek. i had to write in greek letters because I do not have coptic font. please check the same reference above. many thanks--Ramsis II 02:31, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Coptic is not a problem for us. —Stephen 03:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation

What's that written in the section?? I've always thought that IPA standard is another.

Where slashes are is the secondary issue - the quetion is where the stress and why ":"s were typed after consonants.

If we have non-English pronunciation there, we should consider two other questions: Why there is no notion about what language phonemes are used,

and

Why don't we have an English variant in this case, as we are on the English language branch of Wictionary?

Thanks,

Josh, 217.118.66.6

Not sure why or even how we could have an English IPA for a Libyan Arabic word. Secondly, I didn't know this till recently but consonants can be long as well as vowels. Go figure. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:11, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I don’t understand much of your question. A colon after a consonant corresponds to a doubling of the consonant. ʒəlːaːbijːa = zhəlláábiyya. —Stephen ^(Talk) 05:43, 21 March 2011 (UTC)