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Arabic Alphabet
Learning the Arabic alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Arabic language.
Below is a table showing the Arabic alphabet and how it is pronouncedin English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word.

End of the word
Middle of the word
Beginning of the word
Sound
Example
ا‎
ـا‎
ـا‎
ا‎
ʾ / ā
'a' as in 'father'
ب‎
ـب‎
ـبـ‎
بـ‎
b
'b' as in 'bed'
ت‎
ـت‎
ـتـ‎
تـ‎
t
't' as in 'tent'
ث‎
ـث‎
ـثـ‎
ثـ‎
ṯ
'th' as in 'think'
ج‎
ـج‎
ـجـ‎
جـ‎
j
'j' as in 'jam'
ح‎
ـح‎
ـحـ‎حـ‎
ḥ
Sharp 'h'
خ‎
ـخ‎
ـخـ‎
خـ‎
ḫ (kh, x)
'ch' as in German 'Bach'
د‎
ـد‎
ـد‎
د‎
d
'd' as in 'deer'
ذ‎
ـذ‎
ـذ‎
ذ‎
ḏ (dh, ð)
'th' as in 'there'
ر‎
ـر‎
ـر‎
ر‎
r
'r' as in 'run'
ز‎
ـز‎
ـز‎
ز‎
z
'z' as in 'zoo'
س‎
ـس‎
ـسـ‎
سـ‎
s
's' as in 'sit'
ش‎
ـش‎
ـشـ‎
شـ‎
š (sh)
'sh' as in 'shut'
ص‎
ـص‎
ـصـ‎
صـ‎
ṣ
's" as in 'sold'
ض‎
ـض‎
ـضـ‎
ضـ‎
ḍ
'd' as in'bulldozer'
ط‎
ـط‎
ـطـ‎
طـ‎
ṭ
't' as in 'Tazmania'
ظ‎
ـظ‎
ـظـ‎
ظـ‎
ẓ
'th' as in 'those'
ع‎
ـع‎
ـعـ‎
عـ‎
ʿ
'a' in 'agh' when suprised
غ‎
ـغ‎
ـغـ‎
غـ‎
ġ (gh)
'r' as in 'Paris'
ف‎
ـف‎
ـفـ‎
فـ‎
f
'f' as in 'free'
ق‎
ـق‎
ـقـ‎
قـ‎
q
'q' as in 'Qum'
ك‎
ـك‎
ـكـ‎
كـ‎
k
'k' as in 'king'
ل‎
ـل‎
ـلـ‎
لـ‎
l
'l' as in 'lift'
م‎
ـم‎
ـمـ‎
مـ‎
m
'm' as in 'moon'ن‎
ـن‎
ـنـ‎
نـ‎
n
'n' as in 'net'
ه‎
ـه‎
ـهـ‎
هـ‎
h
'h' as in 'house'
و‎
ـو‎
ـو‎
و‎
w
'w' as in 'wonder'
ي‎
ـي‎
ـيـ‎
يـ‎
y
'y' as in 'yellow'
ء




'o' as in 'oh'.








Top vowel
َ‎
a
Sounds like 'a' in Alabama


Top vowel
ُ
u
Sounds like 'o' in Open


Bottom Vowel
ِ‎
i
Sounds like 'I' in India
The Arabic alphabet is written from right toleft. It has no capital letters. (Originally Eurpoean alphabet didn’t have capitals either, the Roman alphabet, from which we got ours, existed out of what we now call capital letters, the Capitalis Quadrata. There was also a handwritten script derived from the Capitalis Quadrata, used by the roman soldiers and merchants. Only during the Middle Ages under Charles the Great, capitals whereintroduced).
The Arabic script is called a running script. In Latin script there is the option to write the letters separate or attached to each other, In Arabic however you are forced to write most of the letters attached and some not. In Latin script when a word doesn’t fit on a line, you split the word up into syllables and break it on that, in Arabic that is not possible. So instead of braking theword into syllables making the word smaller as to fit on a line they make the word bigger by extending the letter, like so
أنا أكب لك رســـالة مملوء بالحــــــــــــــــــــــــــــب “Ana aktub lak risalatan mamlu’a bil-hhub I write you a letter ful of love. Some Arabic letters are almost impossible to pronounce, like the hh (a hot h as if you are cleaning a mirrors, or like if you eat hot sambaland your throat is on fire) the 3 as if you burb or like in English “I say” with a cracking voice and the q which is pronounced very deep in your throat with your huig. The g is like our Dutch g in Scheveningen. The glottal stop lik in English Co-operation or in Cockney bo’lle is also a letter in Arabic.










Arabic Numbers
Learning the Arabic Numbers is very important because itsstructure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Arabic language. But first we need to know what the role of Numbers is in the structure of the grammar in Arabic.
Arabic cardinal number convey the "how many" they're also known as "counting numbers," because they show quantity. Here are some examples:
English Numbers
Arabic Numbers...