The Arabic Alphabet

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The Arabic Alphabet

• By Bryce Casper

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There are 28 letters in the Arabic Alphabet.
There are no capitol or small letters.
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Arabic Alphabet And Writing System

• Based on a consonantal Root System
• Represented by a general/neutral concept
• No capitol or lowercase letters
• Consists of purely of consonants and has a base
  of patterns .
• Looks like a type of speed writing
• Problem for people trying to learn the language

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Arabic Alphabet And Writing System (cont.)

• 4 major characteristics to this language
• Letters are connected
• Letters have different shapes
• Script consists of 2 separate layers of script
• Made of consonants and long vowels
• Second layer of script is called vocalization
• Vowel markings are used to introduce new
  Vocabulary.

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Arabic Alphabet and Writing System (cont.)

• Arabic writing system is regularly phonetic
• Words generally written as pronounced
• Arabic sounds use a wider range of mouth and
  throat positions than English.

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The first letter of the Arabic Alphabet is Alif.
It sounds closer to father in the Gulf Region and
closer to bad in the Mediterranean.
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The second letter is baa. It is pronounced like
the English b.
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The third letter is taa. Its pronounced like an
English t and it is a frontal letter.
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The fourth letter is thaa. Its pronounced like
the first sound in three and represents the sound
in three.
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The Fifth letter is jiim. The transliteration for
it is j. You pronounce it like the sound in
measure.
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The sixth letter in the Arabic Alphabet is Haa.
Its pronounced like the English H.
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Conclusion

• The Arabic Alphabet has had a long and rich
  history
• It is greatly intertwined with Islam
• It was used to write the Quran
• Some of the greatest scholars wrote some of the
  greatest books in Arabic
• It is widespread across the world
• It is spoken by millions