Review Article

A Comparative Study of Some Automatic Arabic Text Diacritization Systems

Table 1

Arabic diacritics with their International Phonetic Alphabet representation (IPA).

Diacritic markNameTypeTransl.IPAWord position

بَFathahShort vowelsa/a/Any
بُDammahShort vowelsu/u/Any
بِKasrahShort vowelsi/i/Any
بًاTanwin FathTanwinF/An/End
بٌTanwin DammTanwinN/Un/End
بٍTanwin KasrTanwinK/In/End
بّShaddahShaddah:Any
بْSukunSukunoAny