Fact · Languages and accents
The 2023 Interspeech paper says that most people write and type Arabic text without diacritics.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“most people write and type Arabic text without the inclusion of diacritics”
Diacritic Recognition Performance in Arabic ASR, Hanan Aldarmaki and Ahmad Ghannam, Interspeech 2023, 2023, Introduction.
Open the original- What it measures
- Diacritics are the marks that show short vowels. The paper says most of them are left out and left to be inferred from context.
- What it does not show
- A description of common writing practice, not a count of how many texts use diacritics.