On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
alternate double marks (Fathatan, Kasratan, Dammatan)
and some other marks which are used in official Korans of the Islamic
countries scribed by Osman Taha; and finally the smaller variants of
Fatha, Kasra, and Damma introduced by the
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
This includes 'Subscript Alef' and 'Turned Damma' (Ulta Pesh), used in
Iran and Pakistan;
MMA I think these are also used in Arab countries, because even my Arabic teacher
MMA who's from Syria referred to this ulta pesh as a Koranic sign.
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Hi folks!
RP At least not in the Korans I've seen. In those, Turned Damma is clearly
RP used to mark an /u:/ sound when a Waw is not there (and only that). It is
RP not an ornament in any way. I'm talking about Iranian Korans.
It's clearly a
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This includes 'Subscript Alef' and 'Turned Damma' (Ulta Pesh), used in
Iran and Pakistan;
MMA I think these are also used in Arab countries, because even my Arabic teacher
MMA who's from Syria referred to this ulta pesh as a Koranic sign.
Hm, as
On 24-Sep-01 Michael Everson wrote:
Miikka-Markus,
I'd suggest that you write this up as a PDF document (with scanned
examples) and submit it to the UTC and WG2 for consideration.
OK. I'll start working on it. I mean, at least the Arabic part of my message.
I'm not a professional
Miikka-Markus,
I'd suggest that you write this up as a PDF document (with scanned
examples) and submit it to the UTC and WG2 for consideration.
Hello!
I saw some beautiful writings in Arabic calligraphy a while ago and began
wondering, what are all those dots and lines which appear frequently in works
of art, but which aren't vowels or parts of the base letters themselves (such as
a diacritic resembling v and an Arabic comma used as a
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