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  2. Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'variation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.

  3. Shaddah - Wikipedia

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    Shaddah (Arabic: شَدّة shaddah [ˈʃæd.dæ], "[sign of] emphasis", also called by the verbal noun from the same root, tashdid تشديد tashdīd "emphasis") is one of the diacritics used with the Arabic alphabet, indicating a geminated consonant.

  4. Category:Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    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).

  5. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Mixture of Arabic and Aramaic, 1 vertical line in Thamudic: Nabataean, some letter-joining. Has a few diacritic dots. Last inscription in Nabataean language. Epitaph to one Raqush, including curse against grave-violaters: "This is a grave K b. H has taken care of for his mother, Raqush bint ʿA. She died in al-Hijr in the year 162 in the month ...

  6. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    An Arabic sentence can have a completely different meaning by a subtle change of the vowels. This is why in an important text such as the Qur’ān the three basic vowel signs are mandated, like the Arabic diacritics and other types of marks, like the cantillation signs.

  7. Abjad - Wikipedia

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    Al-ʻArabiyya, meaning "Arabic": an example of the Arabic script, which is an impure abjad. Impure abjads have characters for some vowels, optional vowel diacritics, or both. The term pure abjad refers to scripts entirely lacking in vowel indicators. [12]

  8. Arabic script - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic script, ... diacritics to existing Arabic letters. Some stylistic variants in Arabic have distinct meanings in other languages.

  9. Nunation - Wikipedia

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    Nunation (Arabic: تَنوِين, tanwīn), in some Semitic languages such as Literary Arabic, is the addition of one of three vowel diacritics to a noun or adjective. This is used to indicate the word ends in an alveolar nasal without the addition of the letter nūn.