Arabic letters and diacritics: Difference between revisions

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And a glottal stop:
And a glottal stop:
* ء - hamza
* ء - hamza
** It is pronounced by completely closing the throat (so that you can't breathe).
** It is pronounced by quickly closing the throat (so that you can't breathe).
** The word Qur'an has a hamza after the "r". So you shouldn't exhale during the whole pronunciation of the word, but (quickly) close your throat after "r" and then continue with "aan". The hamza is indicated by diacritics in modern Arabic script (القرآن‎‎, al-qur'an), but in the Uthmani script, it was a letter (القرءان, al-qur'an).
** The word Qur'an has a hamza after the "r". So you shouldn't exhale during the whole pronunciation of the word, but (quickly) close your throat after "r" and then continue with "aan". The hamza is indicated by diacritics in modern Arabic script (القرآن‎‎, al-qur'an), but in the Uthmani script, it was a letter (القرءان, al-qur'an).


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