Re: Name for vowels
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 6:02 |
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katav Steven Williams:
| --- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> schrieb:
| > The Hebrew name for vowel signs is "nekudoth", isn't
| > it?
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| More precisely, 'niqqudoth', at least in Tiberian
| Hebrew (don't know about Modern Israeli Hebrew).
MnIH dictionary I use, gives _n@quddah_ for 'point', 'vowel sign' and
_niqquud_ for 'system of vowel points'.
| > Is there a general name for Arabic vowel signs
| > (fatha, kasra etc.)?
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| 'H.arakaat', where 'h.' is the unvoiced epiglottal
| fricative, represented by the letter 'h.aa'. I think.
Thank you. That's what I looked for.
-- Yitzik
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