On Tue, 27 Jul 2010, Khaled Hosny wrote: >> According to "Grammatik des klassischen Arabisch" by Wolfdietrich Fischer, >> page 9, the "ya" is written two dots in such cases, too. > > Except that this is not a Yaa and not pronounced like a Yaa, it is an > Alef (note the small dagger Alef above it).
That is exactly what I meant and exactly what is written in W. Fischer. My point is that there are two dots below.