The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write itA step-by-step guide through all the letters of the Arabic alphabet, showing the sounds they stand for and how they are combined into words. The user-friendly text will enable readers to master the first steps in learning to read and write this increasingly important world language. |
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accent actually alif alphabet appears Arabic Arabic alphabet beginning called careful chapter classical combinations comes common complicated connecting connector consonant daal DHaa dhaal diphthong dots double emphatic English equivalent exactly example explained fact final final form followed four French give given hamza important Initial Medial instance isolated form kataba kind Koran laam language learning Arabic less letter taa long vowel looks marked means medial forms middle names never normal Notice nuun patterns position practice preceding pronounced pronunciation The letter qaaf remember Reminder about pronunciation represented root shape shiin short vowels similar simply sits sometimes sound speakers stands stress stroke sukuun syllable tail thaa thing three letters tongue transliteration usually various waaw word write written