Arabic letters and diacritics: Difference between revisions

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* غ - '''gh'''ayn
* غ - '''gh'''ayn
** Similar to the French "r".
** Similar to the French "r".
And a glottal stop:
* ء - hamza
** It is pronounced by completely 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". 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).


==ِArabic letters mixed together==
==ِArabic letters mixed together==
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