


“Ana aktub lak risalatan mamlu’a bil-hhub I write you a letter ful of love. So instead of braking the word into syllables making the word smaller as to fit on a line they make the word bigger by extending the letter, like so In Latin script when a word doesn’t fit on a line, you split the word up into syllables and break it on that, in Arabic that is not possible. In Latin script there is the option to write the letters separate or attached to each other, In Arabic however you are forced to write most of the letters attached and some not. The Arabic script is called a running script. Only during the Middle Ages under Charles the Great, capitals where introduced). There was also a handwritten script derived from the Capitalis Quadrata, used by the roman soldiers and merchants. (Originally Eurpoean alphabet didn’t have capitals either, the Roman alphabet, from which we got ours, existed out of what we now call capital letters, the Capitalis Quadrata. The Arabic alphabet is written from right to left. The better you pronounce a letter in a word, the more understood you will be in speaking the Arabic language.īelow is a table showing the Arabic alphabet and how it is pronounced in English, and finally examples of how those letters would sound if you place them in a word.

Without it, you will not be able to say words properly even if you know how to write those words. Learning the Arabic alphabet is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation.
