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by _samihasan_ 3467 days ago
Author here.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding the concern of this substituting the Arabic script, I addressed this in the intro section of the project where I laid it out plain and clear that the target is novice learners of Arabic as I noticed that they suffer with pronunciation and reading skills and I wanted to help them overcoming this gap to make the transition to the Arabic script smoother and less painful.

As far as I can tell, the project was not ideologically or politically motivated but to be honest with you, the Turkish language was an influencing factor on the development of this project whether which parts to use and which parts to pass but I am not sure if you know that Turkish throughout its history was not written only in Arabic script but in other scripts like for example Armenian but the Ottomans adopted the Arabic script for their official communications until came Mustafa Kemal and introduced his reforms and switched to Latin which was a good idea since writing Turkish in Arabic script was a nightmare.

Re your last concern, like I said in that part, it's for regional languages/dialects not the standard variety and I outlined the reasons for that.

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Hi. I applaud your motivation, but to be honest, when I was learning Arabic, the only trouble I would regularly run into would be with the tashkeel, which I find difficult to memorise. On the other hand, it was much easier for me to associate each letter with their respective sound(s).