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About the Arabic Alphabet 

Introduction to the Alphabet

 

• Arabic is read from right to left
• Almost all the letters in an Arabic word are joined together like hand writing
• Some letters can’t join because of their shape, but we’ll

see them as they come

• There are 29 letters in the Arabic alphabet
• There is no such thing as capital letters versus small letters
• There is no such thing as printing versus hand writing , Arabic is all hand writing
• All the letters in the alphabet are consonants
• Vowels are separate marks that go on top or underneath these letters
• The letters are shown on the next page
• Each letter has 4 forms (which look very similar to each other)

o when you write the letter by itself

o when it comes in the beginning of a word

o when it comes in the middle of a word

o when it comes at the end of a word

• The forms you saw in the chart above are when the letter is by itself

o here’s an example of the letter Baa in all 4 forms

end	middle	beginning	by itself
ـب	ــــــبــــ	بـــــ	ب

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• There is no such thing as capital letters versus small letters

Basically, there is no such thing as printing versus hand writing / cursive
So basically, there’s only one way to write Arabic

Read the chart of letters below from right to left, top to bottom
You can click on each letter to hear its name

ج	ث	ت	ب	ا
ر	ذ	د	خ	ح
ض	ص	ش	س	ز
ف	غ	ع	ظ	ط
ن	م	ل	ك	ق
	ي	ء	ه	و

• Basically, all 29 letters are consonants

Vowels are not part of the alphabet; they will be discussed later

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• Each letter has 4 forms (which look very similar to each other)

o   when you write the letter by itself

o   when it comes in the beginning of a word

o   when it comes in the middle of a word

o   when it comes at the end of a word

These forms will be discussed later
The forms you saw in the chart are when the letter is by itself

end	middle	beginning	by itself
ـب	ـبـ	بـ	ب

• When we learn the Arabic alphabet in these lessons, we will talk about the following things:

o   what is the letter’s name?

o   how do you pronounce the letter?

o   how do you write the letter (in all 4 forms)?

بَ  بِ   بُ  ـبْ   باً   ـبٌ   ـبَّـ ـبٍ

بَا بِي   بُو ابْ   بَن بُون   ـبَّـ بِن

ba  be   bo ib   bun   bon   Bu   bin