Rohingya/Introduction

Introduction
-What is Rohingya Language?

Rohingya Language is the written and spoken language of Rohingya Muslim people who are the aboriginals of Arakan State of Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) in South East Asia.

Arakan is one of the larger States of Myanmar and is a place of two sister communities, namely Rohingya of Islamic faith, and Rakhine of Buddhist faith, each speaking a totally different language. Myanmar is comprised of seven states and seven divisions. Seven States are homes for seven major minority-ethnic groups and seven divisions for a single majority-ethnic group known as Burman.

-Language Type

Rohingya language family can be traced back to Indo-Aryan, Indo-Iranian, Indo-European. A some what similar language, known as Chittagoni, is also spoken in the south-most region of Bangladesh bordering Arakan State of Myanmar. Rohingya's second language is either Urdu for studying at religious schools or Burmese for studying at government schools. The study of English is also very much encouraged. You can find many words from Urdu, Hindi, Burmese and English assimilated into Rohingya language.

-Script Types

The first Rohingya language written was in Arabic Script more than 300 years ago. The first person who revived the Arabic Script again is Master Sultan in Mid 1970s which is about 40 years ago. His great effort was much appreciated and he wrote a number of books that reached to many Rohingyas. However, due to lack of some sounds in Arabic script to fulfill Rohingya tongue, many ordinary Rohingyas find much difficulties in reading.

In early 1980s another scholar known as Maulana Hanif invented new characters mostly similar to Arabic script and a couple of other characters borrowed from Latin and Burmese. He managed to solve the reading problems significantly and his effort too was appreciated by many. But implementation of his characters in today's electronic media is not that simple because its writing system is right to left orientation and the shapes of characters changes by position within a word.

By the year 2000 a new intuitive, logical and revolutionary concept has been used by Eng. Mohammed Siddique to write Rohingya Language using Latin characters only. He made Rohingya language extremely easy enabling you to read and write within few minutes by just following seven simple rules. This new writing system is known as Rohingyalish or Rohingyalic and it has been recognized by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) on July 18, 2007 by assigning an International language code "ISO 639-3 rhg".

-Number of Alphabets

Aa	Bb	Cc	Çç	Dd	Ee	Ff
Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm
Nn	Ññ	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss
Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

Rohingya alphabets consist of all 26 English alphabets plus two Latin characters -Çç and Ññ - making a total of 28 alphabets. Out of these, five are used for forming three different types of vowels namely normal, stressed and two types of circular vowels.

There are six normal vowels - a, e, i, o, u, ou - where the sixth one is formed by joining two alphabets o and u. Stressed vowels are formed by using accented vowels - á, é, í, ó, ú, óu - where the sixth one being accented ó and normal u joined.

There are four circular vowels - ai, ei, oi, ui which are formed by just adding i next to the four normal vowels. And there are also stressed circular vowels - ái, éi, ói, úi - that are formed by adding the same i to each of the four accented vowels.

...Words borrowed from
...How Language developed
...Age of the writing system
...Usage in media
...Keyboard Type
-People of Arakan
...Types of people
...Types of Languages
...Types of Dialect
...Types of Religions
...Plain and mountainous people
-Religious effects
...Islamic religious study
...Buddhist effects
...Hindu Religion effects
-Similarities with other language
...Words from Rakhines
...Words from English
...Words from Hindi
...Words from Farsi
...Words from Burmese
...Words from Bangali
-How easy is the Language?
...Familiar Latin Alphabets
...Simplified Vowel Sounds
...Simplified Circular Sounds
...Simplified Extension, Rise and Fall definition
...Very Short time learning curve
...Implementation in computer and Internet
...Easy on mobile like devices
-Rohingya Grammar
...Article
...Sentence construction
...Pronouns
...Prepositions
...Relation pronouns
...Exclamation marks
...Rohingya phrases
-Rohingya Idoms
...Collected Idoms
-Rohingya Songs
...Mohd Shofu
...Best Rohingya Songs
-Future Development
...Addition of other alphabets
...Addition of other accented vowels
People
-Who is Rohingya
...Who are they?
...How they come into being?
...How they were suffered and massacred?
...How they migrated out?
-Rohingya Culture
...Its own culture
...Its own language
...Its own way of thinking
...Brave and industrious
-Political Status
...Extreme situation
...Under extinction
...Under extreme human rights violation
...Suffer in Education, Movements and Marriage
-Litracy rate
...Urdu Literacy
...Arabic Literacy
...Farsi Literacy
...Burmese Literacy
...English Literacy
History
-ISO recognition
...Recognition by ISO 17 July 2007
-International Recognition
...Usages by international level
Scripts
-Arabic scripts
...by Master Sultan
-Urdu Scripts
...by Others
-Hanifi Scripts
...by Maulana Hanifi
-Rohingyalish Scripts
...by Eng. Mohammed Siddique
Etymology
-Origin
Arakan
-About Arakan
-Arakan Map
-Religious back ground
-Other minorities in Arakan
Dictionary
-10,0000 words
Quran Translation
-Whole Quran translated
...How it is started
...Difficulties faces
...Objection from people
...Help from scholars
-Yasin translation
...People helped
...Serious time
...Advantages and disadvantages
-Writing the first Book One
...Changes required
-Writing Book Two
...The challenge
...Two different H's
Current Status
-Current trend
School Books
-Alphabet and pronunciation
-Book Two
-Book Three
-Book Four
References
-World Rohingya dictionaries
External Links
-Other Rohingya Websites
-Non-profit Organizations
-Political Organization