Arabic diacritics
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title:
Arabic diacritics
text:
The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل). The latter include the vowel marks termed ḥarakāt. The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where short consonants and long vowels are represented by letters but short vowels and consonant length are not generally indicated in writing. Tashkīl is optional to represent missing vowels and consonant length. Modern Arabic is always written wit
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Diacritics used in the Arabic script
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_diacritics
date created:
2003-07-27T01:51:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T08:46:52Z
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