Transliteration of Arabic Letters into English
Transliteration of Arabic letters into English is not recommended for a learner of Arabic as foreign language. However, in the early stages of learning, using transliteration is inevitable and sometime useful for most learners. It facilitates transition from the pure beginner stage to the upper-beginner stage. Plus, it speeds up t…
The Arabic Letters and Long Vowels
Arabic letters and long vowels are the focus of this lesson. In previous lesson, you learned the Arabic letters and their pronunciation which varies according to the short vowel that accompanies them. For example, we pronounce the letter ل as لَ la, لِ li, or لُ lu. What if a long vowel follows the Arabic letters, to what degree their pronunc…
The Arabic Alphabet
There are twenty-eight letters in the Arabic Alphabet. These Arabic letters are consonants. Two of them are also vowels; that is, besides being consonants, they are also vowels. In addition to these, there are the alif without hamza (هَمْزَة) (also spelled hamzah) (ا) and the madda (مَدَّة) (also spelled maddah) (آ). The maddah is a combination of alif with…
