Editing Arabic alphabet (section)

====Modified letters====
The following are not individual letters, but rather different contextual variants of some of the Arabic letters.

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! rowspan="2" |Name
! colspan="3" |Contextual forms
! rowspan="2" |Isolated
! rowspan="2" |Translit.
! rowspan="2" |Notes and Phonemic Value (IPA)
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!Final
!Medial
!Initial
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|[[Tāʾ marbūṭah|{{transliteration|ar|ALA|tāʾ marbūṭah}}]]
({{lang|ar|<big>تَاءْ مَرْبُوطَة</big>}})
|style="line-height:180%;padding:10px;" |<span style="font-size:190%;">{{lang|ar|ـة}}</span>
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center"  |(only final)
| style="text-align:center" |<span style="font-size:190%;">{{lang|ar|ة}}</span>
| style="text-align:center" | {{transliteration|ar|ALA|h}} or {{transliteration|ar|ALA|t}}
|(aka "''correlated tā{{'}}''")
used in final position, often for denoting singular feminine ''noun/word'' or to make the ''noun/word'' feminine, it has two pronunciations rules; often unpronounced or pronounced {{IPA|/h/}} as in {{lang|ar|مدرسة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|madrasa}} {{IPA|ar|madrasa|}} / {{transliteration|ar|ALA|madrasah}} {{IPA|ar|madrasah|}} "school" and pronounced {{IPA|/t/}} in [[construct state]] as in {{lang|ar|مدرسة سارة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|madrasatu sāra}} "Sara's school".

In rare ''irregular noun/word'' cases, it appears to denote masculine singular nouns as in {{lang|ar|أسامة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|ʾusāma}}, or some masculine plural noun forms as in {{lang|ar|بَقَّالَة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|baqqāla}} plural of {{lang|ar|بَقَّال}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|baqqāl}}.

plural nouns: {{transliteration|ar|ALA|āt}} (a preceding letter followed by a {{transliteration|ar|ALA|fatḥah alif}} + {{transliteration|ar|ALA|tāʾ}} = {{script/Arabic|1=ـَات}})
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|{{transliteration|ar|ALA|[[Aleph#Arabic variants|ʾalif maqṣūrah]]}} ({{lang|ar|<big>أَلِفْ مَقْصُورَة</big>}})
| style="line-height:180%;padding:10px;" |<span style="font-size:190%;">{{lang|ar|ـى}}</span>
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center" |(only final)
| style="text-align:center" |<span style="font-size:190%;">{{lang|ar|ى}}</span>
| style="text-align:center" |{{transliteration|ar|ALA|ā}} 
| Two uses:<br />1. The letter called {{lang|ar|أَلِفْ مَقْصُورَة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|alif maqṣūrah}} or {{lang|ar|ْأَلِف لَيِّنَة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|alif layyinah}} (as opposed to {{lang|ar|أَلِف مَمْدُودَة}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|alif mamdūda}} {{lang|ar|ا}}), pronounced {{IPA|/aː/}} in Modern Standard Arabic. It is used only at the end of words in some special cases to denote the neuter/non-feminine aspect of the word (mainly verbs), where [[Tāʾ marbūṭah|{{transliteration|ar|ALA|tā’ marbūṭah}}]] cannot be used.<br />
{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}<br />2. A way of writing the letter {{lang|ar|ي}} {{transliteration|ar|ALA|yāʾ}} without its dots at the end of words, either traditionally or in contemporary use in Egypt and Sudan.
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