Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

Thanks, Nick. That's what I thought it is. Though I liked the vowel harmony
of /mühämmädü-nü r-räsûlü/...



heer wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>>
>>>> Even then, Arabic script does not fully cover the Arabic language
>>>> from a linguistic perspective. A (or maybe /the/) striking example
>>>> is the inserted vowel between the /n/ of tanween and any initial
>>>> cluster of consonants, e.g., /muHammadu-ni r-rasuulu/: it has no
>>>> orthographic expression (I found it described as kasra, bound to a
>>>> small nuun in an Ottoman handbook, but I never attested it in a
>>>> manuscript).
>>>
>>> (I think you mean /muHammadu-nu r-rasuulu/ ;)
>>>
>>
>>   According to Wright's Grammar, Vol. I, p. 22, /muHammadu-ni
>> r-rasuulu/ is correct.
>>
>> Nicholas
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