The Alphabet and diacritics
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| The Alphabet and diacritics |
In this article I will provide help to all the students that want help in
learning Arabic.
The first thing we are going to learn about is of course the Alphabet, and
in Arabic we have 28 letters. And this is a picture of all the alphabets that
we have in Arabic with their pronunciation beneath. And it’s very important to
mention that Arabic writing is from right to left and even reading obviously**
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| The Alphabet and diacritics |
If you are reading this list of alphabet for the first time you will notice
that some of the alphabet letters are the same except some have dots above or
under\beneath.
After mastering the pronunciation of each letter you need to practice
writing them and you can even find examples and exercises on the internet or in
Pinterest:
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| The Alphabet and diacritics |
This is a simple example; you can see how the letter is written and
practice it beneath.
Quizlet will be a big help for you as well, and soon I will include the
letters and their pronunciation and I will put the link in this blog.
In addition to the letters and
sounds that we have in Arabic we have 14 symbols that we add to the letters
either above or under\beneath, and it changes the way we pronounce it and we
call them in arabic either Tachekil or Harakat in English they are called
Diacritics and when you are a beginner you need them to make correct sounds and
read the words or texts correctly, when you are advanced then you can stop
using them.
But first let’s learn the simple Harakat or Tahchekil I’m including here a
picture from pinterest that explain the Harakat:
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Basically you do the same with every letter for example if you have ت = T
T+FATHA = TA
T+DAMMA= TU
T+KASERAH = TI
T+SUKUN= T
T+SHADDAH=TT and you stress on the letter when you pronounce it.
This all for today if you have a question or a comment please leave it in
the section bellow and thank you so much.**
