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I like this. Is the sun supposed to recall a rotary phone? Benkarnell 11:28, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. I actually need to rework the image- there should be a dot above the left-hand pointy bit. Geoff 17:31, 23 Oct 08 (USCT)

What are the arabic letters supposed to be? Does Turkmenistan actually speak Arabic *there*, or do they just use the alphabet? (I ask because I'm too lazy to go look.) BoArthur 18:49, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

It's not actually Arabic, it's the Sogdo script that they use (in its horizontal orientation). Sogdo is based on the Syriac scripts of *here* (which do share a lot of common features with Arabic), and is related to the Uygur and Mongolian traditional scripts. What is called Sogdo *there* is actually a reworked Sodgian script much closer to the Mongol & Manchu scripts of *here*. It can be oriented right-to-left horizontally or tilted 90 degrees and read vertically. I'm going to write up an article as soon as I can get the letters uploaded into a decent-looking image(s). Geoff