"Peru and Cuba"
Translation:بيرو وَكوبا
July 1, 2019
4 Comments
If i look at the word peru i see an b - ii - r - uu. I thought the 2 dots under indicates an ii sound, can anyone explain what im seeing wrong here?
July 1, 2019
benton.1
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I'm making an educated guess that perhaps when fully voweled, the first letter "baa", which is a "stand-in" for the letter "p", would have a fatHa over it making the "a/e" sound, which when combined with the "ii" sound of the letter/vowel "yaa" would make the "ai" sound equaling "Peru" - the European pronunciation, not the English pronunciation. p-ai -r-uu or pe -ii -r-uu
July 5, 2019
The 'baa' can't have a fatHa on it, though. Any short vowel followed by a long vowel HAS to match the long vowel. So it could start with 'bi' but not 'ba', since the long vowel is 'ii'.
July 7, 2019
