Amal/writing

Kamiya

Amal is written with an adaptation of the Perso-Arabic script, called kamiya ("writing"). It is used as an alphabet, with the exception that vowels are marked as diacritics within words, and only as full letters when they begin, or end, a word. There are 22 characters used, including vowel markings and the ligature "la".

Consonants

As the chart indicates, all but the dal, ra, and wa have initial, medial, and final forms. The qupa is used to represent the glottal stop /ʔ/ or /q/ in loanwords. The wa and yad are also used to represent vowels. See below.

Vowels

As the chart indicates, there are four vowel characters, although the um can also be used to indicate /o/, and this would be understood through context. The e only appears within words when transliterating loanwords, or names.

Diacritics

As can be seen in the chart, long and short vowels are distinguished in romanization, but not in Kamiya. They are understood through context.

Alternate

These alternate characters would only be used for calligraphic purposes, or in loanwords and names.

Ligatures

This ligature for /la/ never takes any diacritics, unlike natural languages that use the Arabic script.

Examples