Issues of alhamzah and alalef in Southern Arabia A comparative study with classical Arabic

Abstract

 This paper deals with discussion, analysis, and comparison, and the Hamza and Alef in Southern Arabic or the so-called Musnad language or the ancient Yemeni language and its different dialects compared to them in Classical Arabic in terms of their pronunciation, drawing, and their different issues such as the heart, substitution, deletion, or mitigation. And we mean by the hamza in southern Arabic we mean the verified hamza that appears by its well-known drawing as we arrived from the Musnad inscriptions, ( South Arabian inscriptions ) which is represented by the hamza of the pieces, and in being an original letter in the word, which may sometimes be reduced to a thousand. We also mean by a thousand, the vowel in its various forms, which has no writing in the Musnad language, but rather a pronunciation. Key words: South Arabic, Musnad, Classical, Hamza, Alif.