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** Dagger alif (vertical line above a letter) means a long vowel "aa" after the letter. | ** Dagger alif (vertical line above a letter) means a long vowel "aa" after the letter. | ||
** It is used a lot in the Qu'ran in the Uthmani script, but in the modern Imla'ei script, the words are often written with regular alif placed after the letter instead. | ** It is used a lot in the Qu'ran in the Uthmani script, but in the modern Imla'ei script, the words are often written with regular alif placed after the letter instead. | ||
*** In the words zakat (زكاة) and salat (صلاة), there is a و with a superscript alif in the Uthmani script and it is read as a regular alif (صَّلَوٰةِ and زَّكَوٰةَ) without the "w" sound. | *** In the words zakat (زكاة) and salat (صلاة), there is a و (waw) with a superscript alif in the Uthmani script and it is read as a regular alif (صَّلَوٰةِ and زَّكَوٰةَ) without the "w" sound. | ||
** This diacritic is missing on Arabic keyboard layout. The Unicode number is U+0670. | ** This diacritic is missing on Arabic keyboard layout. The Unicode number is U+0670. | ||
* آ - alif maddah (أَلِف مَدَّة) <-- don't confuse with "dammah" | * آ - alif maddah (أَلِف مَدَّة) <-- don't confuse with "dammah" | ||