Whereas in the process of generating the sound of ‘gh’ the...

Whereas in the process of generating the sound of ‘gh’ the back end of the tongue is pressed slightly against the uvula, allowing some air to flow, in the case of the sound of the Arabic alphabet represented by Q, the same process takes place with the difference that the passage is completely blocked, and the sound is actually generated by he sudden release of the passage. ’ or the hamzah; which is the character representing the glottal stop.

c also shown as ‘ This symbol is used to characterize an Arabic alphabet that represents the sound of a strong ‘throaty’ A. Just as the sound for A is generated at the back of the throat, in the same proximity, the sound for c or ‘ is also generated with the difference that the entire throat back is engaged in the process by a stroke of contraction in the muscle there.

In this process more of the throat is blocked, which also involves the back end of the tongue, than when pronouncing the normal A. Just in the case of the normal A, the sound is actually generated at the time of the release of the contraction of the muscles involved. ‘Long’ a There are also cases when there is a diacritic or a small horizontal line above the letter, like a>: this is to represent ‘long’ a, an alternative to writing aa.

The nearest example for the long a, or a>, in English words is case of “far” as opposed to the word “fat”. In the case of “far”, the ‘a’ is elongated in the pronunciation, whereas in the case of “fat”, the ‘a’ is short. ‘Double’ consonant letters In the Arabic language, there are many instances where a letter in a word has double pronunciations with a very slight pause between the two.

The first pronunciation is always the sound of the letter itself, and the second is the sound of the letter together with that of the following letter. For correct pronunciation of the word, it is important that there is a very slight pause between the sounds of the double letters. Some examples are as follows: Alla>h, where the presence of ‘ll’ indicates the requirement of the double pronunciation of the letter ‘l’.

It may help if the word is considered as Al-la>h, with the pause due to the hyphen being very slight. Another example is Muhammad. Previous…