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ٱ. The waṣla ( Arabic: وَصْلَة , lit. 'an instance of connection') or hamzatu l-waṣli ( هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ, ' hamza of connection') is a variant of the letter hamza ( ء) resembling part of the letter ṣād ( ص) that is sometimes placed over the letter ʾalif at the beginning of the word ( ٱ ). The ʾalif ...
Classification. Old Arabic and its descendants are classified as Central Semitic languages, which is an intermediate language group containing the Northwest Semitic languages (e.g., Aramaic and Hebrew), the languages of the Dadanitic, Taymanitic inscriptions, the poorly understood languages labeled Thamudic, and the ancient languages of Yemen written in the Ancient South Arabian script.
Areas where Omani Arabic is spoken (in dark blue those areas where it is more widely spoken). Omani Arabic ( Arabic: اللهجة العمانية, romanized : al-Lahjah al-ʻUmānīyah; also known as Omani Hadari Arabic) is a variety of Arabic spoken in the Al Hajar Mountains of Oman and in a few neighboring coastal regions. It is the ...
Arabic. There have been two Arabic alphabets used to write Tatar: İske imlâ and Yaña imlâ. İske imlâ is the older of the two and was used until 1920, when it was changed to become Yaña imlâ and remained in use until it was replaced by the Latin Yañalif alphabet. However, Tatars in China still use İske imlâ .
Afroasiatic ( Afro-Asiatic ), also called Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic [1] or Semito-Hamitic, [2] is a large language family. They are mainly spoken in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. [3] There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken. About 495 million people speak an Afroasiatic language ...
The Arabic keyboard (Arabic: لوحة المفاتيح العربية, lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-`Arabīyyah) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters , the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses .
The word 'Allah' in thuluth calligraphy. Allah ( / ˈælə, ˈɑːlə, əˈlɑː /; [1] [2] [3] Arabic: ٱللَّٰه, romanized : Allāh, IPA: [ʔaɫ.ɫaːh] ⓘ) is the common Arabic word for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. [4] [5] [6] The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al ...
