Re: `bin' or `ibn' Ladin?

En réponse à Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> Hi!
>
> I was wondering why the romanisation of Arabic `son' is sometimes
> `bin' and sometimes `ibn'.  What is the difference?  Or the mistake in
> one of the romanisations?  Which one is how correct?  What is the
> exact pronunciation in Arabic?
>
> **Henrik
>
With all that has already been answered, maybe there is also dialectical
variation. I don't remember reading ever 'bin' for it in names of people from
Maghreb (I mean Morocco-Tunisia-Algeria), but a lot for Arabic people at the
East of Egypt.

Christophe.

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