أشباه الصوائت في اللغة العربية: قضاياها ومشكلاتها من منظور علم الأصوات الحديث

Abstract EN

The article attempted to investigate the studies that talked about the category of “semi-vowels” and their location in the phonetic structure of the Arabic language, and to highlight the efforts of the ancient and the modern linguists about them.

going back to the various researches and modern phonetic studies that were conducted on this category, we find that scholars and scientists have singled it out with special topics, and distinguished it clearly, whether in terms of terminology or in terms of concept, and even function, and they are two sounds in Arabic (Waw) and (Yaã).

as for returning to the ancients, although these sounds were disturbed when analyzing the phonemic system of the language, they realized their existence, and stated that they differ from the category of “vowels”, as they are like “consonants” identically.

the article concluded that studies on this category are fraught with several problems, the most important of which is highlighting its phonological value, and manifesting it more in proportion to its functional value in the phonetic system of the classical Arabic language.

there is also another problem represented in distinguishing them from the two similar vowels, which are the (Waw) and (Yaã).

vowels, especially during the teaching of writing, which has resulted in educational problems that have not yet been resolved, as teaching the number of basic sounds of the Arabic language, along with their syllabic function, as a "consonants" witch is already present in the phoneme system of the language.