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The Arabic alphabet contains twenty-eight
letters with some additional letters that are used when writing
names of places or foreign words containing sounds which do not
commonly occur in Standard Arabic such as /p/ or /g/. (www.omniglot.com).
Words in Arabic language are written from
right to left, but numerals are written from left to right. Most of
the Arabic letters change their forms based on their locations in
the words. For example, Alif (the first alphabetic letter) changes
its form in the beginning, middle or at the end of a word. According
to (www.omniglot.com),
“Letters that can be joined are always joined in both hand-written
and printed Arabic. The only exceptions to this rule are crossword
puzzles and signs in which the script is written vertically”.
There are
six alphabetic Arabic letters that CANNOT be connected to the
following letters. Those letters are Alif, Daal, Thaal, Raa, Zaal,
and Waw (See
chart). The long vowels in Arabic are represented by the
letters Alif, Waw, and Yaa (See
chart).
See
Arabic alphabetic
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