"Strength and weakness coefficient of Arabic letters"
Ayman Abdullah Ahmed
Tikrit University, College of Education for Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.3.7
Keywords: Strong Coefficient, Strong ratio, Weak ratio, Relatively strong, Absolutely strong
Abstract
The phonemic level of linguistics is closer to all other levels of applied sciences; As a physical phenomenon in its origin, as well as finite and countable units; Thus it is easy to describe it mathematically. I had previously had an idea based on a quantitative description of the concepts of strength and weakness in the letters of the Arabic lexicon, by calculating the ratio of strong to weak qualities for each letter and thus showing the ratio of strength, weakness and moderation. With this research in her master's thesis tagged: (Quantitative Description of the Concepts of Strength and Weakness in the Arabic Letters), she did well and completed the research, and came out with good results, which no one has ever reached. Since the purpose of the research is a quantitative representation of the strength, weakness and moderation of each letter; It seemed to me that we treat those values that we obtained for each letter (the percentage of strength and percentage of weakness) with an arithmetic process and come up with one numerical coefficient for each letter that represents the strength, weakness, or moderation of the letter. The researcher did this by making the value of the strength ratio a basis, and comparing the weakness ratio with it according to the following equation (Strength Coefficient = Strength Ratio / Weakness Ratio). Relatively speaking, if the output is greater than (1), the sound is relatively strong. But if the result is equal to (0), the letter is absolutely weak, and if the result is equal to (∞), then the letter is absolutely strong
