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> Vowels are an afterthought to Arabic writing.

Are you an Arabic speaker? This claim is a bit stretched.

Yes, short vowels are written as diacritic symbols on consonants, which are often dropped from mass publications.

However, long vowels are an essential part of the language and they are indeed present as their own letters in Arabic.



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