From: Khaled Hosny (khaledhosny@eglug.org)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 10:52:12 CDT
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 05:32:21PM +0200, Andreas Prilop wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> >> According to "Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch" by Wolfdietrich Fischer,
> >> page 9, the "ya" is written two dots in such cases, too.
> >
> > Except that this is not a Yaa and not pronounced like a Yaa, it is an
> > Alef (note the small dagger Alef above it).
>
> That is exactly what I meant and exactly what is written in W. Fischer.
>
> My point is that there are two dots below.
No, there aren't, at least in orthographies that differentiate between
Yaa and Alef Maqsura by dots.
-- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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