#double vowels

[uinuvien]

One of my weird wishes is to go abroad, preferably to English or other Germanic language speaking country, to Starbucks and see what they write my name as. Because despite my name being STUPIDLY simple (seriously 4 letters, 3 vowels and 1 consonant), even people here, where my name is far from rare, tend to get it wrong, and I want to know how wrong someone, whose language doesn’t come even from the same language family, can get it :D

[arabicway]

One type of  vowel derivative is the double vowel, which is known in Arabic as tanwiin تنوين .The process of tanwiin is a fairly simple one: Basically, you take a main vowel and place the same vowel right next to it, thus creating two vowels, or a double vowel. The sound that the double vowel makes depends on the main vowel that's doubled:

Double fatHa: تنوين الفتح tanwiin al-fatH: creats the "an" sound: حسناً 'Hasanaan.

Double dammah: تنوين الضمّ tanwiin al-dhamm: creates the "oun" sound: سيءٌ saiyoun.

Double kasra:تنوين الكسر  tanwiin al-kassr: makes the "een" sound: حقيقةٍ 'Haqeqateen.