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Read a standalone ال as the clan prefix آل (#1150) - #1330

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Closes #1150.

ال standing alone was excluded as the article (#269). Measured in JRC-Names (28 standalone spellings): 17 clan prefix, 9 cut off, 2 the given name Al, 0 the article. It is now a clan reading, never given, with same_as = "آل".

  • parse("سارة علي ال ناصر"): middle علي, family ال ناصر (3.0.1: middle علي ال, family ناصر).
  • Accepted cost: Arabic-script ال باتشينو reads as a family name. A given reading was declined (decisions/P1, 2026-11-10).
  • No snapshot corpus name moved. Full suite passes.

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ال standing alone is the clan prefix in every measured case, never the
article split from its word; it is now a never-given clan reading, the
hamza-less spelling of آل.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@derek73 derek73 added vocabulary Fixed by a word-list entry: per-word vocabulary and language packs non-latin-script Names written in a script other than Latin (rules/W) particles Particles and surname prefixes (rules/P) labels Nov 11, 2026
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ease range (#1150)

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Should a standalone ال before a name read as the clan prefix آل? (حسن علي ال يحيى gives family 'يحيى')

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