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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 font size was fixed at 125% for better readability. The style font-weight: normal is provided by Template:Script/styles arabic.css and present to remove boldness, e.g. in section titles, because Arabic diacritics are best read only in normal weight, but also because some fonts do not exist in bold styles; without it, other fallback fonts would be used instead (possibly with lover coverage ...
Specifying a non-Arabic character will just show that character in all four cells, surrounded by tatweels on the appropriate sides (in which case, the tatweels will not join with that non-Arabic character). A similar (but different) template implementation could be created for scripts other than Arabic using joining forms (see the references ...
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The pronunciation of word initial and medial /u/ and /i/ depends on the nature of the surrounding consonants, whether the syllable is stressed or unstressed, the accent of the speaker, and rate of speech. As a general rule, word initial or medial /u/ is pronounced , but strictly as at the end of a word or before /w/ (as in هُوَّ [huwːa]).
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Square brackets are used with phonetic notation, whether broad or narrow [17] – that is, for actual pronunciation, possibly including details of the pronunciation that may not be used for distinguishing words in the language being transcribed, but which the author nonetheless wishes to document. Such phonetic notation is the primary function ...