WRITING
Arabic alphabet is written and read from right to
left and horizontally. There are 28 letters in the Arabic alphabet.
Now examine the table below:
As you may have noticed, some of
the letters in Arabic don’t exist in English and vice versa. We will first go
through the letters that exist in English, the table below shows the letters
that you may not have any problem learning or pronouncing:
Now we will go through the Arabic letters that are either hard to pronounce
or are pronounced a little bit differently, you shouldn’t worry if you can’t
pronounce them the right way, because there are always close pronunciations in
Arabic, and you still can be understood.
Arabic Alphabet List:
**: letters having stars next to
them can only connect with other letters placed before them and not after,
which means that if a letter is placed after them, that letter should take a
form as if it was placed in the beginning of the word.
Note also that the letters I marked
with stars in the table above never connect with other letters marked with
stars either before or after.
So you have to be careful with
these starred letters, because sometimes they may make you think that they’re
the last letter of a word because they have that form of an ending letter,
while in the reality they may not be the last letter of the word. The table
below may explain it better:
Learning how to read Arabic
characters and how to pronounce it will make it very easy for you to learn the
language, and avoid counting on transliterations that are not really reliable.
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