Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In the spelling of Arabic and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis (/ˈmeɪtriːz lɛktiˈoʊnᵻs/; from Latin \"mothers of reading\", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה 'em k'ri'á), refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel. In Arabic, the matres lectionis (though they are much less often referred to thus) are alif ا, waw و, and ya' ي. The letters that do this in Hebrew are א aleph, ה he, ו waw (or vav) and י yod (or yud). The yod and waw in particular are more often vowels than they are consonants."@en }
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- Mater_lectionis abstract "In the spelling of Arabic and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis (/ˈmeɪtriːz lɛktiˈoʊnᵻs/; from Latin \"mothers of reading\", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: אֵם קְרִיאָה 'em k'ri'á), refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel. In Arabic, the matres lectionis (though they are much less often referred to thus) are alif ا, waw و, and ya' ي. The letters that do this in Hebrew are א aleph, ה he, ו waw (or vav) and י yod (or yud). The yod and waw in particular are more often vowels than they are consonants.".