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Letter

 * 1) A diacritic used at the beginnings of words to mark all vowels throughout the word as front vowels. (It has no sound value on its own.)

Usage notes

 * Not used in words containing, , or , as they also mark all vowels as front vowels.
 * If a word contains a hamza (or, , and ) but also contains or , vowels near  or  will remain back vowels but all other vowels in the word will be fronted.