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That's right. "Muslim" is not a language, and even you mean "Arabic" and not Persian or Turkic names (the latter two used throughout the Islamic world as well), there is more than one flavor of Arabic, in fact if you exclude Judeo-Arabic languages there are still 30 Arabic languages that rate their own 3-letter language codes, plus a couple of Creoles (simplified mixtures of two or more languages). Additionally there are a further seven languages spoken by Muslims in Yemen and Oman which are closer to Ethiopian than the other surviving Semitic languages of the Middle East (Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew). Each will have their own distinct way of pronouncing and writing Arabic names, and then there will be, as তন্ময় ভট্টাচার্য্য mentioned, how Arabic names are spoken and used by Muslims outside the Arabic world.

This message was edited 10/6/2017, 7:50 AM