Dots and Vowels
What you seeTwo panels on sage. Above, bare letter shapes beside their dotted forms, the dots in brown. Below, the letter ba with the short-vowel and reading marks: fatha, kasra, damma, sukun, shadda and tanwin, each named.
What it meansEarly Arabic was often written without dots, so several letters shared one shape. Dots to tell them apart and marks for the short vowels were added in the first centuries of Islam, and full vowelling is still used for the Qur'an and for teaching. The letters are set in the Amiri typeface.
Where it worksA clear, useful piece for a study, a classroom or a reading nook.
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