How can one differentiate between the letters of prolongation (alif, waw, ya) and the diacritics (fathah, dammah, kasrah) in the Arabic language?
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We advise the questioner that knowing this is easy and accessible, and that the confusion may arise for English speakers due to their changing the dammah (short 'u' vowel) into a waw (long 'u' sound), which does not exist in the Arabic language. One must learn the Arabic language—reading, writing, and its grammar—to remove ambiguity, either in a school or with a private tutor.
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