the vowel of the imāla was pronounced somewhere between /a/ and /i/, suggesting a realization of [e]. Sibawayh primarily discusses imāla as a shift of /aː/...

/p/ "behaved most of the time as an "emphaticised" phoneme, resistant to imāla or palatalisation" thus possibly being pronounced as [pˤ]. [t͡ʃ] was a marginal...

groups, /a/ in a previous syllable blocks this imala. Like the dialects of central Sinai and Negev, the imala of feminine adjectives of color and defect on...

Syrian. Some Palestinian dialects ignore imala totally (e.g. Gaza). Those dialects that prominently demonstrate imāla of /aː/ (e.g. Nablus) are distinct among...

Neo-Štokavian Ijekavian/Ekavian Óvca i kònji Óvca koja níje ìmala vȕnē vȉd(j)ela je kònje na br(ij)égu. Jèdan je òd njīh vȗkao téška kȍla, drȕgī je nòsio...

some archaic features such as the realisation of ⟨kh⟩ and ⟨gh⟩ and the imāla of Arabic ā into ē (or ī especially in Gozo), considered archaic because...

Lebanese Arabic. It agrees with Lebanese Arabic with its usage of medial imāla which often turns /a:/ into /e:/. Also has /t͡ʃ/, which is not typical of...

it reveals the pronunciation of the time; it features many examples of imāla (the fronting and raising of /a/ toward /i/). It also features a pre-grammarian...

and most modern Arabic dialects. A completely different phenomenon called imāla led to the raising of /a/ and /aː/ adjacent to a sequence i(ː)C or Ci(ː)...

Academic Literature Names Linguistics Phonology Sun and moon letters Tajwid Imāla ʾIʿrāb (case) Grammar Triliteral root Mater lectionis IPA Quranic Arabic...