From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed May 13 2009 - 13:57:51 CDT
On 5/12/2009 1:32 PM, Adam Twardoch wrote:
> Behnam wrote:
>
>> This is interesting!
>> Arabic script knew something when it opted for reading the entire word
>> instead of individual characters!
>>
>
> Indeed, it must have been after the Arabic script decided to add the
> dots which differentiate between different letters (before this was
> done, the same one letter represented e.g. baa, taa and thaa). But how
> do you explain that the Arabic script never opted to write most vowels?
>
Surely, that's because of the way vowels are used in the language.
A./
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