Challenges in the transformation of Slovene geographical names into Arabic

Abstract

The authors tried to investigate the possibility of creating a comprehensive, easily applicable and readable system for transcribing Slovene geographical names into Arabic. They prepared a list of around 200 important geographical names in Slovenia and a map which includes some of those names in Arabic manuscript form. In the first chapter they outlined some basic characteristics of Arabic and Slovene language and some procedures of transformations of non-Roman scripts and inversely. Avtorji so raziskali možnost priprave razumljivega, lahko uporabnega in berljivega sistema transkripcije slovenskih zemljepisnih imen v arabscino. Za ta namen so pripravili preglednico z nekaj vec kot 200 pomembnimi zemljepisnimi imeni in zemljevid, na katerega so vnesli arabske zapise najpomembnejsih med njimi. V uvodnem delu so predstavljene tudi poglavitne znacilnosti arabskega in slovenskega jezika ter postopki prevedbe nelatinicnih pisav v latinicne in obratno.