Subject: Re: Digraphs<br/>
Date: Jan 28, 2002 @ 22:41<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2098715260">No, that&#39;s my mistake. I have encountered Al Djazair (circumflex on <br/>
second a), so almost your spelling. Still makes sense: DjaZair.<br/>
Peter S.<br/>
<br/>
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;granthutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@b...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Peter:<br/>
&gt; &gt; And finally: isn&#39;t it nice to know that DZ stems from Al-<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Dzhazair??I<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; like that, although up to now I&#39;ve never seen the Arabic letter jiim<br/>
&gt; transliterated as anything other than j, dj or g, depending on the<br/>
&gt; country. The UNGEGN (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/)">http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/)</a> doesn&#39;t mention such a<br/>
&gt; scheme. Still, it makes complete phonetic sense and gives us DZ more<br/>
&gt; naturally than my &quot;Al Djaza&#39;ir&quot;.<br/>
&gt; Where did you find that spelling?<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Grant </span></blockquote></div>