Friday, 24 May 2024
orthography again
These last days, I posted again after a break.
Orthography or more to the point: the latitude with orthography is my interest.
first half a line from the 15 liner (611 pages), twice Taj Ltd Com. first from the 1960s, than from this millenium, and last from the King Fahd Complex; Taj just deleted the hamza sign and moved the fatha on the alif, "Medina" moved the parts of one word closer together.
Now the same verse in the 13 liner (848 pages): top with a hamza sign (aka head of ʿain) and a mute alif, later without a head of ʿain and a fatha on the hamza letter (aka alif); this later version is often pirated.
BTW in 19th century maṣāḥif tabūʾa always has a hamza sign sometimes followed by alif:
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