Sun and moon letters
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sun-and-moon-letters-176-421614
title:
Sun and moon letters
text:
In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters and moon letters or lunar letters, based on whether they assimilate the letter lām of a preceding Arabic definite article al- (الـ), which is an important general rule used in Arabic grammar. Phonetically, sun letters are ones pronounced as coronal consonants, and moon letters are ones pronounced as other consonants. These names come from the fact that the word for 'the Sun', al-shams, pron
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Distinction between two groups of Arabic consonants
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_and_moon_letters
date created:
2006-04-09T02:12:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T13:47:07Z
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