Arabic letters and diacritics: Difference between revisions

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* ء - hamza
* ء - hamza
** It is pronounced by quickly 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 (after a little moment of silence) 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", which is indicated by the ' sign. So you shouldn't exhale during the whole pronunciation of the word, but (quickly) close your throat after "r" and then (after a little moment of silence) 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).


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