Re: Geminates common in Arabic?


ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
ranjit_mathews@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Geminate k?
Al Mutawakkil III - last Abbasid Khalif
dukkan = shop

dukka:n


yes, geminates are common. any consonant may be geminated (and are as
required done so)

Unfortunately, I can't tell in which words they are 'coz I haven't seen
a Hindi dictionary that traces words back to their Arabic origins; the
furthest I've seen them go is to trace them back to Persian.

persian preserves the phonemic structure of the loans. if you know
arabic script try an Urdu dictionary. the spelling of arabic words is
preserved (except for ta marbuta)

I had to look that up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta'_marbuta
It's replaced with plain ta, I presume.

or with ha' depending on the pronounciation in persian or urdu.

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