Arabic-L:LING:hamzat al-wasl response

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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1) Subject:hamzat al-wasl response
2) Subject:hamzat al-wasl thanks

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Date: 23 Jun 2004
From:timbuckwalter at qamus.org
Subject:hamzat al-wasl response

Yes, hamzat wasl is falling into disuse because (1) short vowels and
diacritics are increasingly viewed as dispensable elements in writing,
and (2) hamzat wasl is not readily available on personal computers. You
can try inserting the HTML character entity for hamzat wasl (ٱ) in
an HTML document and see how it displays in your web browser. I just
tried this in IE and it displayed a fairly decent-looking alif + hamzat
wasl, even on a lam-alif glyph.

Tim Buckwalter
Philadelphia

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Date: 23 Jun 2004
From: Hikmat Faraj <info at arabictrans.com>
Subject:hamzat al-wasl thanks


My thanks to all who responded to me re the Hamzat Wasl. I really  
appreciate it.
 
Hikmat Faraj

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