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Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include: consonant pointing known as iʻjām (‫)ِإْع َج ام‬, and supplementary diacritics known as
tashkīl (‫)َتْش ِكيل‬. The latter include the vowel marks termed ḥarakāt (‫ ;َح َر َك ات‬singular: ‫َح َر َك ة‬, ḥarakah).

The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where short consonants and

long vowels are represented by letters but short vowels and
consonant length are not generally indicated in writing. Tashkīl is
optional to represent missing vowels and consonant length.
Modern Arabic is always written with the i‘jām—consonant
pointing, but only religious texts, children's books and works for
learners are written with the full tashkīl—vowel guides and
Early written Arabic used only rasm (in black). Later, Arabic added i‘jām diacritics
consonant length. It is however not uncommon for authors to add
(examples in red) so that letters such as these five ‫ـبـ‬, ‫ـتـ‬, ‫ـثـ‬, ‫ـنـ‬, ‫( ـيـ‬b, t, th, n, y) could be
diacritics to a word or letter when the grammatical case or the distinguished. Ḥarakāt diacritics (examples in blue)—which is used in the Qur'an but not
meaning is deemed otherwise ambiguous. In addition, classical in most written Arabic—indicate short vowels, long consonants, and some other
vocalizations.
works and historic documents rendered to the general public are
often rendered with the full tashkīl, to compensate for the gap in understanding resulting from stylistic changes over the centuries.

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Tashkil (marks used as phonetic guides)

The literal meaning of ‫ َتْش ِكيل‬tashkīl is 'forming'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct
pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation.
It serves the same purpose as furigana (also called "ruby") in Japanese or pinyin or zhuyin in Mandarin Chinese for children who are learning
to read or foreign learners.

The bulk of Arabic script is written without ḥarakāt (or short vowels). However, they are commonly used in texts that demand strict
adherence to exact pronunciation. This is true, primarily, of the Qur'an ⟨‫( ⟩ٱْلُقْر آن‬al-Qurʾān) and poetry. It is also quite common to add ḥarakāt
to hadiths ⟨‫( ⟩ٱْلَح ِديث‬al-ḥadīth; plural: al-ḥādīth) and the Bible. Another use is in children's literature. Moreover, ḥarakāt are used in ordinary
texts in individual words when an ambiguity of pronunciation cannot easily be resolved from context alone. Arabic dictionaries with vowel
marks provide information about the correct pronunciation to both native and foreign Arabic speakers. In art and calligraphy, ḥarakāt might
be used simply because their writing is considered aesthetically pleasing.

An example of a fully vocalised (vowelised or vowelled) Arabic from the Basmala:

‫َّٰل‬
‫
ِبْس ِم ٱل ِه ٱلَّر ْح َٰمِن ٱلَّر ِح يِم‬
bismi -llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi

In the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Especially-Merciful.

Some Arabic textbooks for foreigners now use ḥarakāt as a phonetic guide to make learning reading Arabic easier. The other method used in
textbooks is phonetic romanisation of unvocalised texts. Fully vocalised Arabic texts (i.e. Arabic texts with ḥarakāt/diacritics) are sought
after by learners of Arabic. Some online bilingual dictionaries also provide ḥarakāt as a phonetic guide similarly to English dictionaries
providing transcription.

Harakat (short vowel marks)

The ḥarakāt ‫َح َر َك ات‬, which literally means 'motions', are the short vowel marks. There is some ambiguity as to which tashkīl are also ḥarakāt;
the tanwīn, for example, are markers for both vowels and consonants.

Fatḥah

The fatḥah ⟨‫ ⟩َفْتَح ة‬is a small diagonal line placed above a letter, and represents a short /a/ (like the /a/ sound in the English word "cat").
‫َـ‬‎ The word fatḥah itself (‫ )َفْتَح ة‬means opening and refers to the opening of the mouth when producing an /a/. For example, with dāl
(henceforth, the base consonant in the following examples): ⟨‫ ⟩َد‬/da/.

When a fatḥah is placed before a plain letter ⟨‫( ⟩ا‬alif) (i.e. one having no hamza or vowel of its own), it represents a long /aː/ (close to the
sound of "a" in the English word "dad", with an open front vowel /æː/, not back /ɑː/ as in "father"). For example: ⟨‫ ⟩َدا‬/daː/. The fatḥah is not
usually written in such cases. When a fathah placed before the letter ⟨‫( ⟩ﻱ‬yā’), it creates an /aj/ (as in "lie"); and when placed before the letter
⟨‫( ⟩و‬wāw), it creates an /aw/ (as in "cow").

Although paired with a plain letter creates an open front vowel (/a/), often realized as near-open (/æ/), the standard also allows for
variations, especially under certain surrounding conditions. Usually, in order to have the more central (/ä/) or back (/ɑ/) pronunciation, the
word features a nearby back consonant, such as the emphatics, as well as qāf, or rā’. A similar "back" quality is undergone by other vowels
as well in the presence of such consonants, however not as drastically realized as in the case of fatḥah.[1][2][3]
Kasrah

‫ِـ‬‎ A similar diagonal line below a letter is called a kasrah ⟨‫ ⟩َك ْس َر ة‬and designates a short /i/ (as in "me", "be") and its allophones [i, ɪ, e, e̞, ɛ]
(as in "Tim", "sit"). For example: ⟨‫ ⟩ِد‬/di/.[4]

When a kasrah is placed before a plain letter ⟨‫( ⟩ﻱ‬yā’), it represents a long /iː/ (as in the English word "steed"). For example: ⟨‫ ⟩ِدي‬/diː/. The
kasrah is usually not written in such cases, but if yā’ is pronounced as a diphthong /aj/, fatḥah should be written on the preceding consonant
to avoid mispronunciation. The word kasrah means 'breaking'.[1]

Ḍammah

The ḍammah ⟨‫ ⟩َض َّمة‬is a small curl-like diacritic placed above a letter to represent a short /u/ (as in "duke", shorter "you") and its
‫ُـ‬‎ allophones [u, ʊ, o, o̞, ɔ] (as in "put", or "bull"). For example: ⟨‫ ⟩ُد‬/du/.[4]

When a ḍammah is placed before a plain letter ⟨‫( ⟩و‬wāw), it represents a long /uː/ (like the 'oo' sound in the English word "swoop"). For
example: ⟨‫ ⟩ُدو‬/duː/. The ḍammah is usually not written in such cases, but if wāw is pronounced as a diphthong /aw/, fatḥah should be
written on the preceding consonant to avoid mispronunciation.[1]

The word ḍammah (‫ )َض َّمة‬in this context means rounding, since it is the only rounded vowel in the vowel inventory of Arabic.

Alif Khanjariyah

‫ـٰـ‬‎
The superscript (or dagger) alif ⟨‫( ⟩َأِلف َخ ْنَج ِر َّية‬alif khanjarīyah), is written as short vertical stroke on top of a consonant. It indicates a
long /aː/ sound for which alif is normally not written. For example: ⟨‫( ⟩َٰهَذ ا‬hādhā) or ⟨‫( ⟩َر ْح َٰمن‬raḥmān).

The dagger alif occurs in only a few words, but they include some common ones; it is seldom written, however, even in fully vocalised texts.
Most keyboards do not have dagger alif. The word Allah ⟨‫( ⟩اهلل‬Allāh) is usually produced automatically by entering alif lām lām hāʾ. The word
consists of alif + ligature of doubled lām with a shaddah and a dagger alif above lām.

Maddah
Not to be confused with Tilde.

The maddah ⟨‫ ⟩َمَّدة‬is a tilde-shaped diacritic, which can only appear on top of an alif (‫ )آ‬and indicates a glottal stop /ʔ/ followed by a
‫ٓـ‬‎‫آ‬ long /aː/.

‎ In theory, the same sequence /ʔaː/ could also be represented by two alifs, as in *⟨‫⟩َأا‬, where a hamza above the first alif represents
the /ʔ/ while the second alif represents the /aː/. However, consecutive alifs are never used in the Arabic orthography. Instead, this
sequence must always be written as a single alif with a maddah above it, the combination known as an alif maddah. For example: ⟨‫ ⟩ُقْر آن‬/qur
ˈʔaːn/.

Alif waslah
Main article: Wasla (diacritic)

The waṣlah ⟨‫⟩َوْص َلة‬, alif waṣlah ⟨‫ ⟩َأِلف َوْص َلة‬or hamzat waṣl ⟨‫ ⟩َه ْم َز ة َوْص ل‬looks like a small letter ṣād on top of an alif ⟨‫( ⟩ٱ‬also indicated by
‫ٱ‬‎ an alif ⟨‫ ⟩ا‬without a hamzah). It means that the alif is not pronounced when its word does not begin a sentence. For example: ⟨‫⟩ِبٱْس ِم‬
(bismi), but ⟨‫( ⟩ٱْم ُش و۟ا‬imshū not mshū). This is because no Arab word can start with a vowel-less consonant (unlike the English
school, or skateboard). But when it happens, an alif is added to obtain a vowel or a vowelled consonant at the beginning of one's speech. In
English that would result in *ischool, or *iskateboard.

It occurs only in the beginning of words, but it can occur after prepositions and the definite article. It is commonly found in imperative verbs,
the perfective aspect of verb stems VII to X and their verbal nouns (maṣdar). The alif of the definite article is considered a waṣlah.

It occurs in phrases and sentences (connected speech, not isolated/dictionary forms):

To replace the elided hamza whose alif-seat has assimilated to the previous vowel. For example: ‫ ِفي ٱْلَيَمن‬or ‫( في اليمن‬fi l-Yaman) ‘in Yemen’.

In hamza-initial imperative forms following a vowel, especially following the conjunction ⟨‫( ⟩و‬wa-) ‘and’. For example: َ‫( ُقْم َوٱْش َر ِب ٱْلَماَء‬qum
wa-shrab-i l-mā’) ‘rise and then drink the water’.

Like the superscript alif, it is not written in fully vocalized scripts, except for sacred texts, like the Quran and Arabized Bible.

Sukūn

‫ْــ‬‎ The sukūn ⟨ ‫ ⟩ُس ُك وْن‬is a circle-shaped diacritic placed above a letter (  ْ). It indicates that the consonant to which it is attached is not
followed by a vowel, i.e., zero-vowel.

It is a necessary symbol for writing consonant-vowel-consonant syllables, which are very common in Arabic. For example: ⟨‫( ⟩َدْد‬dad).

The sukūn may also be used to help represent a diphthong. A fatḥah followed by the letter ⟨‫( ⟩ﻱ‬yā’) with a sukūn over it ( ‫ )َـْي‬indicates the
diphthong ay (IPA /aj/). A fatḥah, followed by the letter ⟨‫( ⟩ﻭ‬wāw) with a sukūn, ( ‫ )َـْو‬indicates /aw/.

The sukūn may have also an alternative form of the small high head of ḥāʾ (U+06E1 ۡ ), particularly in some Qurans. Other shapes
‫ۡـ ـ‬‎ may exist as well (for example, like a small comma above ⟨ʼ⟩ or like a circumflex ⟨ˆ⟩ in nastaʿlīq).[5]
Tanwin (final postnasalized or long vowels)
Main article: Nunation

‫ٌـ‬‎  ‫ٍـ‬‎  ‫ًـ‬‎
The three vowel diacritics may be doubled at the end of a word to indicate that the vowel is followed by the consonant n. They
may or may not be considered ḥarakāt and are known as tanwīn ⟨‫⟩َتْنِو ين‬, or nunation. The signs indicate, from left to right, -un, -in,
-an.

These endings are used as non-pausal grammatical indefinite case endings in Literary Arabic or classical Arabic (triptotes only). In a
vocalised text, they may be written even if they are not pronounced (see pausa). See i‘rāb for more details. In many spoken Arabic dialects,
the endings are absent. Many Arabic textbooks introduce standard Arabic without these endings. The grammatical endings may not be
written in some vocalized Arabic texts, as knowledge of i‘rāb varies from country to country, and there is a trend towards simplifying Arabic
grammar.

The sign ⟨‫ ⟩ًـ‬is most commonly written in combination with ⟨‫( ⟩ًـا‬alif), ⟨‫( ⟩ًة‬tā’ marbūṭah), ⟨‫( ⟩ًأ‬alif hamzah) or stand-alone ⟨‫( ⟩ًء‬hamzah). Alif
should always be written (except for words ending in tā’ marbūṭah, hamzah or diptotes) even if an is not. Grammatical cases and tanwīn
endings in indefinite triptote forms:

-un: nominative case;

-an: accusative case, also serves as an adverbial marker;

-in: genitive case.

Shaddah (consonant gemination mark)

Main article: Shadda

The shadda or shaddah ⟨‫( ⟩َش َّدة‬shaddah), or tashdid ⟨‫( ⟩َتْش ِديد‬tashdīd), is a diacritic shaped like a small written Latin "w".
‫ّــ‬‎
It is used to indicate gemination (consonant doubling or extra length), which is phonemic in Arabic. It is written above the consonant
which is to be doubled. It is the only ḥarakah that is commonly used in ordinary spelling to avoid ambiguity. For example: ⟨‫ ⟩ّد‬/dd/;
madrasah ⟨‫'( ⟩َمْدَر َس ة‬school') vs. mudarrisah ⟨‫'( ⟩ُمَدِّر َس ة‬teacher', female).

I‘jām (phonetic distinctions of consonants)

The i‘jām ⟨‫( ⟩ِإْع َج ام‬sometimes also called nuqaṭ)[6] are the diacritic points that distinguish various
 
consonants that have the same form (rasm), such as ⟨‫ ⟩ـبـ‬/b/ ‫ب‬, ⟨‫ ⟩ـتـ‬/t/ ‫ت‬, ⟨‫ ⟩ـثـ‬/θ/ ‫ث‬, ⟨‫ ⟩ـنـ‬/n/ ‫ن‬, and ⟨‫ ⟩ـيـ‬/j/ ‫ي‬.
Typically i‘jām are not considered diacritics but part of the letter.

Early manuscripts of the Qur’ān did not use diacritics either for vowels or to distinguish the different
values of the rasm. Vowel pointing was introduced first, as a red dot placed above, below, or beside the
rasm, and later consonant pointing was introduced, as thin, short black single or multiple dashes placed
above or below the rasm (image). These i‘jām became black dots about the same time as the ḥarakāt
became small black letters or strokes. 7th-century kufic script without any
ḥarakāt or i‘jām.
Typically, Egyptians do not use dots under final yā’ ⟨‫⟩ي‬, which looks exactly like alif maqṣūrah ⟨‫ ⟩ى‬in
handwriting and in print. This practice is also used in copies of the muṣḥaf (Qurʾān) scribed by ‘Uthman Ṭāhā. The same unification of yā and
alif maqṣūrā has happened in Persian, resulting in what the Unicode Standard calls "Arabic Letter Farsi Yeh", that looks exactly the same
as yā in initial and medial forms, but exactly the same as alif maqṣūrah in final and isolated forms ⟨‫ـی‬  ‫ـیـ‬  ‫⟩یـ‬.

At the time when the i‘jām was optional, unpointed

‫ڛ‬  ‫س‬ٚ  ‫ۣس‬  ‫ۜس‬  ‫ۡس‬‎
letters were ambiguous. To clarify that a letter
 

would lack i‘jām in pointed text (i.e. ⟨‫ ⟩ح‬/ħ/, ⟨‫ ⟩د‬/d/,

Several ways of writing /s/. ⟨‫ ⟩ر‬/r/, ⟨‫ ⟩س‬/s/, ⟨‫ ⟩ص‬/sˤ/, ⟨‫ ⟩ط‬/tˤ/, ⟨‫ ⟩ع‬/ʕ/, ⟨‫ ⟩ل‬/l/, ⟨‫⟩ه‬
/h/), the letter could be marked with a small v- or
Isolated kāf with ‘alāmātu-l-ihmāl and
seagull-shaped diacritic above, also a superscript semicircle (crescent), a subscript dot (except in the case without top stroke next to initial kāf
of ⟨‫ ;⟩ح‬three dots were used with ⟨‫)⟩س‬, or a subscript miniature of the letter itself. A superscript stroke with top stroke.

known as jarrah, resembling a long fatħah, was used for a contracted (assimilated) sin. Thus ⟨ ‫س‬ٚ ‫⟩ڛ ۣس ۡس‬
were all used to indicate that the letter in question was truly ⟨‫ ⟩س‬and not ⟨‫⟩ش‬.[7] These signs, collectively known as ‘alāmātu-l-ihmāl, are still
occasionally used in modern Arabic calligraphy, either for their original purpose (i.e. marking letters without i‘jām), or often as purely
decorative space-fillers. The small ‫ ک‬above the kāf in its final and isolated forms ⟨‫ـك‬  ‫ ⟩ك‬was originally an ‘alāmatu-l-ihmāl that became a
permanent part of the letter. Previously this sign could also appear above the medial form of kāf, when that letter was written without the
stroke on its ascender. When kaf was written without that stroke, it could be mistaken for lam, thus kaf was distinguished with a superscript
kaf or a small superscript hamza (nabrah), and lam with a superscript l-a-m (lam-alif-mim).[8]

Hamza (glottal stop semi-consonant)

Main article: Hamza

Although normally a diacritic is not considered a letter of the alphabet, the hamza ‫( َه ْم زة‬hamzah, glottal stop), often
‫ء‬ ‫أ‬  ‫إ‬  ‫ؤ‬  ‫ئ‬‎ stands as a separate letter in writing, is written in unpointed texts and is not considered a tashkīl. It may appear as a
letter by itself or as a diacritic over or under an alif, wāw, or yā.

Which letter is to be used to support the hamzah depends on the quality of the adjacent vowels;
 If the glottal stop occurs at the beginning of the word, it is always indicated by hamza on an alif: above if the following vowel is /a/ or /u/
and below if it is /i/.

If the glottal stop occurs in the middle of the word, hamzah above alif is used only if it is not preceded or followed by /i/ or /u/:
If /i/ is before or after the glottal stop, a yāʼ with a hamzah is used (the two dots which are usually beneath the yāʾ disappear in this
case): ⟨‫⟩ئ‬.

Otherwise, if /u/ is before or after the glottal stop, a wāw with a hamzah is used: ⟨‫⟩ؤ‬.

If the glottal stop occurs at the end of the word (ignoring any grammatical suffixes), if it follows a short vowel it is written above alif, wāw,
or yā the same as for a medial case; otherwise on the line (i.e. if it follows a long vowel, diphthong or consonant).

Two alifs in succession are never allowed: /ʔaː/ is written with alif maddah ⟨‫ ⟩آ‬and /aːʔ/ is written with a free hamzah on the line ⟨‫⟩اء‬.

Consider the following words: ⟨‫ ⟩َأخ‬/ʔax/ ("brother"), ⟨‫ ⟩إْس ماِع يل‬/ʔismaːʕiːl/ ("Ismael"), ⟨‫ ⟩ُأّم‬/ʔumm/ ("mother"). All three of above words "begin"
with a vowel opening the syllable, and in each case, alif is used to designate the initial glottal stop (the actual beginning). But if we consider
middle syllables "beginning" with a vowel: ⟨‫ ⟩َنْش أة‬/naʃʔa/ ("origin"), ⟨‫ ⟩َأْف ِئدة‬/ʔafʔida/ ("hearts"—notice the /ʔi/ syllable; singular ⟨‫ ⟩ُفؤاد‬/fuʔaːd/),
⟨‫ ⟩ُر ُؤوس‬/ruʔuːs/ ("heads", singular ⟨‫ ⟩َر ْأس‬/raʔs/), the situation is different, as noted above. See the comprehensive article on hamzah for more
details.

History

According to tradition, the first to commission a system of harakat was Ali who appointed Abu al-
 
Aswad al-Du'ali for the task. Abu al-Aswad devised a system of dots to signal the three short vowels
(along with their respective allophones) of Arabic. This system of dots predates the i‘jām, dots used
to distinguish between different consonants.

   

Early Basmala Kufic Middle Kufic Modern Kufic in Evolution of early Arabic calligraphy (9th–
Qur'an 11th century). The Basmala was taken as
an example, from kufic Qur’ān manuscripts.
(1) Early 9th century, script with no dots or
Abu al-Aswad's system diacritic marks (see image of early
Basmala Kufic);

Abu al-Aswad's system of Harakat was different from the system we know today. The system used (2) and (3) 9th–10th century under Abbasid
dynasty, Abu al-Aswad's system
red dots with each arrangement or position indicating a different short vowel.
established red dots with each
arrangement or position indicating a
A dot above a letter indicated the vowel a, a dot below indicated the vowel i, a dot on the side of a different short vowel; later, a second black-
letter stood for the vowel u, and two dots stood for the tanwīn. dot system was used to differentiate
between letters like fā’ and qāf (see image
However, the early manuscripts of the Qur'an did not use the vowel signs for every letter requiring of middle Kufic);

(4) 11th century, in al-Farāhídi's system

them, but only for letters where they were necessary for a correct reading.
(system we know today) dots were
changed into shapes resembling the letters
to transcribe the corresponding long
Al Farahidi's system vowels (see image of modern Kufic in
Qur'an).
The precursor to the system we know today is Al Farahidi's system. al-Farāhīdī found that the task of
writing using two different colours was tedious and impractical. Another complication was that the i‘jām had been introduced by then, which,
while they were short strokes rather than the round dots seen today, meant that without a color distinction the two could become confused.

Accordingly, he replaced the ḥarakāt with small superscript letters: small alif, yā’, and wāw for the short vowels corresponding to the long
vowels written with those letters, a small s(h)īn for shaddah (geminate), a small khā’ for khafīf (short consonant; no longer used). His system
is essentially the one we know today.[9]

Automatic diacritization

The process of automatically restoring diacritical marks is called diacritization or diacritic restoration. It is useful to avoid ambiguity in
applications such as Arabic machine translation, text-to-speech, and information retrieval. Automatic diacritization algorithms have been
developed.[10][11] For Modern Standard Arabic, the state-of-the-art algorithm has a word error rate (WER) of 4.79%. The most common
mistakes are proper nouns and case endings.[12] Similar algorithms exist for other varieties of Arabic.[13]

See also

Arabic alphabet:
I‘rāb (‫)ِإْع َر اب‬, the case system of Arabic

Rasm (‫)َر ْس م‬, the basic system of Arabic consonants

Tajwīd (‫)َتْج ِو يد‬, the phonetic rules of recitation of Qur'an in Arabic

Hebrew:
 Hebrew diacritics, the Hebrew equivalent

Niqqud, the Hebrew equivalent of ḥarakāt

Dagesh, the Hebrew diacritic similar to Arabic i‘jām and shaddah

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