A Comprehensive Study of the Linguistic and Prosodic Functions of Short Arabic Vowels (ʔl-ħerekat)

Abstract

The study of the short Arabic short Vowels in the old Arabic linguistic Treatises was done by ancient Grammarians of Arabic by treating them as a supplementary topic when they had studied consonants. Moreover, their definition of short vowels was based on quantitative bases. Therefore, the of short vowels had been distributed in various sections of studying the consonants, thus reducing their essential importance in the study of Arabic language and poetry. The ancient Arabic grammarians had to present a study based on the central value of short vowels at each level of the study of verbal performance in language and poetry, which had not been realized. The is noticed that the fundamental impact, or the role, of the short vowels can be traced in the following linguistic levels: