Helping Vowel

Lebanese Poet Saïd Akl

Helping Vowel:


Short vowel 'e' in the middle of a word, is not an integral part of the word, it is only used as a helping vowel in awkward three-consonant clusters, and in two-consonant final clusters. e. g. 'çizn = çizen, çiznqon = çizenqon'.

This system does not use a helping vowel between words, readers must include them to their speech whenever a word ending in a consonant is followed by a word beginning with two consonants. e.g. 'rjêl (e)qbâr'.

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