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Etymology
Most Arabic dialects early on lost the glottal stop, which caused compensatory lengthening of a preceding short vowel. At the beginning of the Islamic period only some of the most conservative lects preserved the consonant. Therefore it was not reflected in the spelling: One generally wrote and pronounced, for example. The grammarians, however, favoured the conservative pronunciation and indicated the glottal stop with various diacritic marks, which ultimately led to the contemporary.

Usage notes

 * The curious vowel-dependent spelling of means that the triptotic noun declension, which is normally not reflected in the spelling, may become visible before a pronominal suffix. Compare:, ,.

Letter

 * 1) The forty-seventh letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Pronunciation

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Letter

 * 1)  – a character representing a glottal stop. It is considered a letter but is not counted as part of the.

Pronunciation

 * silent
 * or silent
 * Unlike other languages using the Arabic script, Urdu does not commonly use Hamza as a glottal stop. Its primary usage is to act as a zero consonant to allow two adjacent vowels;, for example, is pronounced not.
 * or silent
 * Unlike other languages using the Arabic script, Urdu does not commonly use Hamza as a glottal stop. Its primary usage is to act as a zero consonant to allow two adjacent vowels;, for example, is pronounced not.
 * Unlike other languages using the Arabic script, Urdu does not commonly use Hamza as a glottal stop. Its primary usage is to act as a zero consonant to allow two adjacent vowels;, for example, is pronounced not.

Letter

 * 1)  – the thirty-fifth letter of the.