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      • Arabic is written and read from right to left, unlike English, which is written and read from left to right. There are 28 letters in Arabic and 26 letters in English. The Arabic alphabet of 28 letters is created by placing various combinations of dots or symbols above or below the letters.
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  2. The Arabic alphabet evolved either from the Nabataean, or (less widely believed) directly from the Syriac. The table below shows changes undergone by the shapes of the letters from the Aramaic original to the Nabataean and Syriac forms.

  3. Most languages that use alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet use the same base shapes. Most additional letters in languages that use alphabets based on the Arabic alphabet are built by adding (or removing) diacritics to existing Arabic letters.

    Letter Or Digraph [a]
    Letter Or Digraph [a]
    Letter Or Digraph [a]
    Use & Pronunciation
    پـ ـپـ ـپ ‎
    پـ ـپـ ـپ ‎
    Pe, used to represent the phoneme / p / ...
    ݐـ ـݐـ ـݐ ‎
    ݐـ ـݐـ ـݐ ‎
    used to represent the equivalent of the ...
    ٻـ ـٻـ ـٻ ‎
    ٻـ ـٻـ ـٻ ‎
    B̤ē, used to represent a voiced bilabial ...
    ڀـ ـڀـ ـڀ ‎
    ڀـ ـڀـ ـڀ ‎
    represents an aspirated voiced bilabial ...
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  4. What are the historical origins of the Arabic writing system? This graphic helps examine the link between earlier alphabets and how they developed into the Arabic alphabet we know today, while also exploring how other languages from completely different language families use the Arabic alphabet as their primary writing system.

  5. Alphabetical order. There are two main collating sequences ('alphabetical orderings') for the Arabic alphabet: ʾabjadīy, and hijāī . The original ʾabjadī order derives from that used by the Phoenician alphabet, and is therefore reminiscent of the orderings of other alphabets, such as those in Hebrew and Greek.

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  6. Mar 29, 2024 · Click Here to see full-size table The Arabic alphabet has 28 letters, all representing consonants, and is written from right to left. It is descended ultimately from the North Semitic alphabet , like its contemporary Aramaic and Greek scripts, but was adapted to fit the broader phonology of the Arabic language and to a cursive style well suited ...

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  7. The Arabic alphabet probably originated at some time in the 4th century ce, but the earliest extant Arabic writing is a trilingual inscription—Greek-Syriac-Arabic—of 512 ce.

  8. The origins of the Arabic alphabet can be traced to the writing of the semi-nomadic Nabataean tribes, who inhabited southern Syria and Jordan, Northern Arabia, and the Sinai Peninsula. Surviving stone inscriptions in the Nabataean script show strong similarities to the modern Arabic writing system.

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