| has gloss | eng: Yaña imlâ (; Cyrillic: яңа имля; Tatar for new orthography) was a modified variant of Arabic script that was in use for Tatar language in 1920-1927. The orthographical reform modified İske imlâ, abolishing excess Arabic letters, adding letters for short vowels e, ı, ö, o. Some diacritic, that looked like comma was used to designate the vowel harmony. This, however, broke languages involved, and this reform was applied to some other Turkic languages as well, apart from standard Arabic orthography where vowels in the middle of a word are denoted only with harakat. Whether Yaña imlâ or İske imlâ better fit Tatar language as an Arabic alphabet is debatable. Standard Arabic orthography provided more similar orthography between Turkic languages due to the use of harakat. Arguably, Yaña imlâ had as its goal the accommodation of the alphabet to the actual Tatar pronunciation. |
