Talk:Harakat
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The article needs more serious work than i have given it, or than i can without clarification of what the original author was trying to put across. I left most of it untouched, but heavily copy-edited the lead. I also moved here my best guess at what they were trying to start saying:
- In contrast to spelling with a syllabary (e.g., Japanese kana), the letters in the abjad are not ...
I put a period at the end of the last sentence, even tho it may not have been completed.
--Jerzy (t) 17:18, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
What is a "non-deep" glottal stop? The article doesn't mention a "deep" glottal stop, and this is not a standard term in phonology or Arabic linguistics. It's not mentioned in the article on "glottal stop", and I can't imagine what it means.
[edit] Redirects
The vowel points (or vowel marks) of Hebrew (Niqqud) are analogs of the harakat, the vowel marks (but AFAIK not called vowel points) of Arabic. I look forward to the time when Harakat is more thoroughly linked by articles (beyond Arabic alphabet), but IMO at present the much larger body of work lk-ing to Niqqud suggests that making vowel mark a dab between Niqqud and Harakat (instead of a redir to Niqqud as currently) would presently be likely to be much more often an impediment than a help, and thus premature. I am adding top-of-page Dab on Niqqud, indicating that some (few) readers may be reaching Niqqud when Harakat is by far more relevant.
(Bear in mind that all this is academic until additional lks are created: i believe all first-instances in an article, of either "vowel point" or "vowel mark", are currently pipes on lks to Niqqud or Harakat (respectively, as the context indicates). The value of the redirects vowel point and vowel mark will be realized only when future editors lk to them. And it will cease again when the lk to the current or future dab is replaced with the link directly to the appropriate article.)