Basmalah البسملة

In the name of Allāh the Most Gracious the Most Merciful.
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَحْمـٰنِ الرَحيمِ

The Basmalah is a statement envoking the name of Allah (God) in Arabic. It's the opening statement for many good actions. It is uttered at the beginning of every Qur'änic Sürah, save one (Sürat AtTawbah سورة التوبة).

The clip basically shows a demonstration of the evolution of the Arabic Script, with the addition of dots and vowel markers.

Arabic origionally was written without dots. Thus, some different letters were identical when written.
Example:

ٮ without dots (obsolete)
ب B
ت T
ث Ŧ (th as in "thing")

ح Ħ (voiceless pharyngeal)
خ X (vioceless epiglotal) Kh or Ch
ج J (English J, French Dz?)

Because Arabic is an Abjad, most of the vowels are not written, and especially the short vowel sounds. Adding vowel markers made it much easier to read words that have the same spelling, but different pronounciation of their vowels.

بنت
بِنْت BiNT = daughter
بَنَتْ BaNaT = she built

The vowel markers (حركات) are often optional, unlike the dots which are considered part of their respective letters. Those fluent in reading Arabic usually do not need the vowel markers.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Arabic
• Basmalah
• بسملة
• اللغة
• العربية
• dots
• dotless
• vowel
• markers
• نقاط
• حركات
• alphabet
• abjad
• أبجدية
• الأبجدية
• البسملة

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Very nice. Thankx for this. :) :)

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