<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Mon 02 May 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: The silent alif in mi'a query<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 02 May 2011<br>From: Jamal Ali <<a href="mailto:thejamalali@gmail.com">thejamalali@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: The silent alif in mi'a query<br><br>Does anyone know of any information, articles, books, websites, studies, or any other sources that explain why the word mi'a (one hundred) has a silent alif?<br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 02 May 2011</div></body></html>