Tuesday 15 December 2009

The Alphabets

Brief introduction about the Arabic Alphabet
The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing several languages of Asia and Africa, such as Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. The Arabic alphabet has 28 basic letters. Many letters look similar but are distinguished from one another by dots above or below their central part. Arabic is written from Right to Left. Some of the letters in Arabic don’t exist in English and vice versa. You shouldn’t worry if you can’t pronounce them the right way, because there are always close pronunciations and you still can be understood.
Arabic letters should be written connected to each other. The Arabic alphabet letters have up to 3 forms or shapes; each letter takes a form depending on its position in the word. A letter has a form at the beginning of the word, in the middle of the word and at the end of the word; some letters however can keep the same form in one or two positions.