Re: [nukkad] The veil

["Dr.M.C. Gupta" <>]

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Lingua franca means a common spoken language. Arabic is spoken nowhere
outside the thinly populated Arabia. The vast majority of Muslims in the
world don't know or speak Arabic.

MCG

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On 3/24/08, Maloy Manna  wrote:
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> >In response to what Maloy said about using Arabic, why, what is wrong in
> having a religion-wide lingua franca? It makes things so much more easy to
> understand, discuss and follow. In fact, often, the finer nuances of a
> word's meaning are lost in translation, as our friend T. Vasudevan's son
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> It could have been had Arabic been spoken by all Muslims across the world.
> That it isn't makes nuances of Islam more esoteric to its own followers in
> regions like India or Bangladesh where people speak in other languages.
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