Wiktionary talk:About Contemporary Arabic

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Miscellaneous concerns

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List mandatory-pronoun prepositions under the 3sg.m form rather than under the base

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Prefer VCC over VVC when transcribing a heavy syllable followed by a semivowel

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Use bolding rather than an accent to represent stress in Romanization

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Use IPA ⟨ʕ⟩ ⟨ʔ⟩ rather than Hans Wehr ⟨ʿ⟩ ⟨ʾ⟩

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Use ⟨w⟩ and ⟨y⟩ to represent historic diphthongs

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Keep Gulf Arabic ⟨ɪ⟩ instead of normalizing to ⟨i⟩

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Use a single symbol for Levantine /i~u/

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Use ⟨e⟩ (sparingly) for the epenthetic high vowel that features in some dialects

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Question: Using ⟨o⟩ word-finally

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Question: Romanizing ـة in consideration of imaala

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Change Hans Wehr ⟨ẓ⟩

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