This is the first time I've been able to clearly see how Arabic is related to Phoenician/Proto-Canaanite. So cool to see how Arabic is much closer to it than Romano-Greek scripts, which, uh, took some liberties.
Oh, also, you mentioned that diacritics can be used to separate similar consonants, but I was always under the impression they indicate vowels? Is it both?
Arabic has 3 long vowels (letters ا و ي) and 3 short counterparts which are pronounced roughly half as long. The diacritics represent the short vowels and they are َ ُ ِ
This is great stuff!
This is the first time I've been able to clearly see how Arabic is related to Phoenician/Proto-Canaanite. So cool to see how Arabic is much closer to it than Romano-Greek scripts, which, uh, took some liberties.
Oh, also, you mentioned that diacritics can be used to separate similar consonants, but I was always under the impression they indicate vowels? Is it both?
Dots not diacritics, see this comment
Arabic has 3 long vowels (letters ا و ي) and 3 short counterparts which are pronounced roughly half as long. The diacritics represent the short vowels and they are َ ُ ِ
Makes sense? Do you wanna know more about vowels?