imāla
Sign in to save(also ; ) is a phenomenon in Arabic comprising the fronting and raising of Old Arabic toward or , and the old short toward . and the factors conditioning its occurrence were described for the first time by Sibawayh. According to as-Sirafi and Ibn Jinni (10th century), the vowel of the was pronounced somewhere between and , suggesting a realization of .
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- ''Imāla'' in the grammatical tradition
- ''i''-mutation
- III-''w/y imāla''
- II-''w/y imāla''
- ''Imāla'' in Quranic recitation
- Lexically determined ''i''-mutation
- III-''w/y imāla''
- II-''w/y imāla''
- ''Imāla'' in modern Arabic dialects
- ''i''-mutation
- III-''w/y imāla''
- Consonantally conditioned medial ''imāla''
- Effect on other languages
- See also
- References
(also ; ) is a phenomenon in Arabic comprising the fronting and raising of Old Arabic toward or , and the old short toward . and the factors conditioning its occurrence were described for the first time by Sibawayh. According to as-Sirafi and Ibn Jinni (10th century), the vowel of the was pronounced somewhere between and , suggesting a realization of .
Sibawayh primarily discusses as a shift of to in the vicinity of or , an allophonic variation that can be characterized as umlaut or i-mutation. Additionally, Sibawayh's subsumes occurrences of a phonemic vowel resulting from the collapse of Old Arabic triphthongs. For this reason, not all instances of can be characterized as a vowel shift from an original towards the .