Hamzah in the Quranic Consonantal Text
The glottal stop in Classical Arabic is expressed by the hamzah sign, which rather than being its own independent sign in the orthography, is generally treated as a diacritic sign placed on semi-vowels. This orthographic practice has generally been interpreted as reflecting the fact that the Quranic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Gregorian & Biblical Press
[2018]
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Orientalia
Year: 2018, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 93-120 |
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| Summary: | The glottal stop in Classical Arabic is expressed by the hamzah sign, which rather than being its own independent sign in the orthography, is generally treated as a diacritic sign placed on semi-vowels. This orthographic practice has generally been interpreted as reflecting the fact that the Quranic orthography was based on a variety of Arabic that has lost the glottal stop. By closely examining the Quranic Consonantal Text, this paper shows that the language of the Quran is such a variety that had lost the glottal stop, and that the absence of representation in the Consonantal Text is not a purely orthographic matter. Secondly, the paper shows that the glottal stop appears to not have been lost in word-final āʔ. Finally, the paper discusses an important early Quranic document, DAM 01-29.1, which shows many examples of innovative orthography to represent the hamzah in the consonantal skeleton of the Quranic text. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Orientalia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ORI.87.1.3293194 |