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Variants of standard Arabic diacritics; wavy hamza: ٲ اٟ Kashmiri The Kashmiri language written in Arabic script includes the diacritic or "wavy hamza". In Kashmiri the diacritic is called āmālü mad when used above alif: ٲ to create the vowel /əː/. [11] Kashmiri calls the wavy hamza sāȳ when below the alif: اٟ to create the sound ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The basic Arabic range encodes the standard letters and diacritics, but does not encode contextual forms (U+0621–U+0652 being directly based on ISO 8859-6); and also includes the most common diacritics and Arabic-Indic digits. The Arabic Supplement range encodes letter variants mostly used for writing African (non-Arabic) languages.
The standard Arabic version ي يـ ـيـ ـي always has 2 dots below. ^iv. These characters are used by most languages that use writing systems based on Arabic, though sometimes only in foreign words. ^v. A Wasala diacritic Unicode character has been proposed but not yet released.
If the consonant takes a kasrah /i/, it is written between the consonant and the shaddah instead of its usual place below the consonant, however this last case is an exclusively Arabic language practice, not in other languages that use the Arabic script. For example, see the location of the diacritics on the letter ـهـ h in the following words:
The Arabic script can, therefore, be used as a true alphabet as well as an abjad, although it is often strongly, if erroneously, connected to the latter due to it being originally used only for Arabic. Use of the Arabic script in West African languages, especially in the Sahel, developed with the spread of Islam.
Native Arabic long vowels: ā ī ū; Long vowels in borrowed words: ē ō; Short vowels: fatḥa is represented as a, kasra as i and ḍamma as u. (see short vowel marks) Wāw and yāʼ are represented as u and i after fatḥa: ʻain "eye", yaum "day". Non-standard Arabic consonants: p (پ), ž (ژ), g (گ) Alif maqṣūra (ى): ā
Arabic diacritics include i'jam (in Arabic: إِعْجَام , ʾiʿǧām, consonant pointing marks), the combining forms of hamza ( الهَمْزة , (al-)hamzah, a semi-consonant which may occur as diacritics) and tashkil ( تَشْكِيل , taškīl, vowel pointing diacritics).