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Arabic letter/symbol Usual romanization Letter name A–B a [a] cat in British English, only approx. in American English, could also be realised as [æ] َ a, á, e فَتْحَة (fatḥah) aː [b] not exact, longer far, could also be realised as [æː] ـَا (ى at word end) ā, â, aa, a أَلِف (ʾalif) الف مقصورة (ʾalif ...
The first known text in the Arabic alphabet is a late fourth-century inscription from Jabal Ram 50 km east of ‘Aqabah in Jordan, but the Zabad trilingual inscription is the earliest dated Arabic text from 512, and was discovered in Syria. [17] Nevertheless, the epigraphic record is extremely sparse. Later, dots were added above and below the ...
The characters used to illustrate the consonant diacritics are from Unicode set "Arabic pedagogical symbols". [2] The "Arabic Tatweel Modifier Letter" U+0640 character used to show the positional forms doesn't work in some Nastaliq fonts. ^ii. For most letters the isolated form is shown, for select letters all forms (isolated, start, middle ...
Vowel chart representing the pronunciation of diphthongs by a Palestinian speaker educated in Beirut. From Thelwall (1990:38) Modern Standard Arabic has six vowel phonemes forming three pairs of corresponding short and long vowels (/a, aː, i, iː, u, uː/). Many spoken varieties also include /oː/ and /eː/.
The Arabic script, also called the Perso-Arabic script [a] is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
It is a necessary symbol for writing consonant-vowel-consonant syllables, which are very common in Arabic. For example: دَدْ (dad). The sukūn may also be used to help represent a diphthong. A fatḥah followed by the letter ﻱ (yā’) with a sukūn over it (ـَيْ) indicates the diphthong ay (IPA /aj/).
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Lebanese Arabic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Lebanese Arabic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
The Arabic Extended-B and Arabic Extended-A ranges encode additional Qur'anic annotations and letter variants used for various non-Arabic languages. The Arabic Presentation Forms-A range encodes contextual forms and ligatures of letter variants needed for Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Central Asian languages.