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Study Tools for Rapid Learning. And you need physical worksheets to practice on. Download Now! This is a must-have guide for absolute beginners. Arabic uses the Arabic alphabet as its writing system. The Arabic alphabet originated from Aramaic, and although Arabic inscriptions appear most commonly after the birth of Islam in the seventh century , the origin of the Arabic alphabet lies deeper in time.

The Nabataeans, who established a kingdom in what is modern-day Jordan from the second century B. They wrote with a highly cursive Aramaic-derived alphabet that would eventually evolve into the Arabic alphabet. The Nabataeans endured until the year A. Nabataean inscriptions continue to appear until the fourth century A. In order to accommodate the needs of these other languages, new letters and other symbols have been added to the original alphabet.

The spoken dialects are used to communicate verbally while standard Arabic is used in the written form. The Arabic alphabet consists of three vowels and twenty-eight consonants. In total there are twenty-eight characters. Arabic does not have words written with separate letters, which is why each letter has three forms: beginning, medial, and end, plus the isolated form. If you know the Arabic alphabet, Hebrew, Amharic, Persian, and Turkish may be easier to understand and learn also, mainly because these come from the same family, or use the same alphabet system, also there is a lot of common words between them, so it all connects.

Arabic Alphabet Chart Top The prospect of learning a new language can be scary, especially when that language has an entirely different alphabet than you are accustomed to using in your Native language.

The Arabic alphabet is unique and learning this alphabet will be a primary aspect of your early Arabic lessons. It is not impossible to learn how to speak Arabic without understanding the alphabet. While you are learning Arabic phrases and vocabulary you will be seeing the words transliterated, meaning that they are taken out of the Arabic alphabet and put into English lettering so that they can be understood by those learning the language.

Of course, you can also learn how to speak Arabic by listening to Native speakers. An Arabic podcast or Arabic television are great ways to immerse yourself in the language so that it can be learned more quickly, especially as a supplement to traditional written Arabic lessons. Though early lessons may utilize phonetic spellings to help you learn Arabic vocabulary, to truly be able to communicate in the language, including reading text in real-life applications, you will need to understand the Arabic alphabet.

This will help you to read Arabic texts, including an Arabic dictionary, which will help you to continue learning vocabulary. The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 letters.

Because these letters generally correspond to consonants, the alphabet is classified technically as an abjad. There are two sequences for the alphabet. One is derived from the Phoenecian alphabet and is used only when lettering is required because letters in this ordering are also used as numbers.

The second ordering is used when both letters and numbers are required. As you are learning the Arabic alphabet you must also begin mastering other aspects of understanding and communicating in the language, including Arabic accents and grammar rules. This is due to the fact that short vowels are almost always omitted in the written version of the language.

Though not necessarily the case in educational settings, such as formal Arabic lessons because the vowels are important to proper grammar, this will be the case in most other forms of written language so understanding of the language will help readers put the words in context so they can be interpreted properly.

At the beginning of a word, the letter alif assimilates the sound of the vowel immediately before or after it. The exact sound of alif depends on the letters around it. This letter has some regional variation. This sound does not exist in English. When a word begins with a Moon letter, the definite article is pronounced as spelled: al- But, when a word begins with a Sun letter, one that uses the tip of the tongue , the definite article assimilates the sound of the Sun letter.

We will indicate this assimilation in our romanization. Start Your Free Trial. Learn Arabic anywhere with ArabicPod on your mobile device All of our lessons, lesson notes, progress tracking and premium tools are available on your smartphone or mobile device.

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