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Sun and moon letters
In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters ((アラビア語:حروف شمسية) ') and moon letters or lunar letters ( '), based on whether or not they assimilate the letter ' ( ') of a preceding definite article ''al-'' (). These names come from the fact that the word for 'the sun', ', pronounced ''ash-shams'', assimilates the ', while the word for 'the moon', ', does not.
==Rule==
When followed by a sun letter, the of the Arabic definite article ' assimilates to the initial consonant of the following noun, resulting in a doubled consonant. For example, for "the Nile", one does not say '','' but ''.'' When the definite article is followed by a moon letter, no assimilation takes place. The sun letters represent the coronal consonants according to the phonology of Classical Arabic, and the moon letters represent all others.
The sun and moon letters are as follows:
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