Talk:Wadaad's writing

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[edit] nomenclature

Hello Gailtb, re the reverted edit from "orthography" back to "nomenclature", could you please explain the meaning of "nomenclature" in linguistics? I've searched, and can't find anything specific to the field. I'm trying to disambiguate this article's link to "nomenclature", so if there's a specific linguistic meaning, I'd be grateful if you could explain it, so I can create a new article. Thanks, Clicketyclack 19:46, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. The term nomenclature is the one used in the source article by Lewis. Since it's about writing the Arabic language with the normal Arabic script, I guess it just means that the Arabic vowels were given some kind of Somali-ized name, ie a nomenclature, rather than a new orthography being devised. So I believe it's just the usual meaning of nomenclature rather than a specific linguistic one. Hope I made the correct interpretation of what Lewis was saying. Gailtb 20:12, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

An apparently illegal copy of the article is here:

http://gess.wordpress.com/files/2006/10/the-gadabuursi-somali-script.pdf Gailtb 23:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

You're right, that's a new nomenclature, not a new orthography. This is just one of several examples of a more generalized (but entirely legitimate) usage of the term in WP articles. Maybe I should just add words to that effect on Nomenclature, which currently only lists WP articles describing de jure standards for scientific nomenclature. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up. Clicketyclack 05:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)