The Arabic Letters

Whether your motive to learn the Arabic language is to become the next foreign affairs minister of your country, interpreter at the UN, or get deeper understanding of the Qur'an, the first thing you need to familiarize yourself with is the ARABIC ALPHABETS. The Arabic language just like some other languages has its own alphabets which are the blocks used in building the language. Though I am going to teach you all the letters in the Arabic language, I don't know how many they are, but trust me, I will not skip any of them. No sir! It's not that I don't know them all, it's just that I don't have the time to count them. So, here we go. I am going to list all the Arabic letters and their nearest equivalent in the English letters:

ARABIC	ENGLISH	PRONOUNCITION
ا	A	Alifun
ب	B	Ba'un
ت	T	Ta'un
ث	Ths	Thsa'un
ج	J	Jeem'un
ح	H	Ha'un
خ	Kh	Kha'un
د	D	Dalun
ذ	Dz	Dzalun
ر	R	Ra'un
ز	Z	Zayun
س	S	Seenun
ش	Sh	Seenun
ص	Sw	Swadun
ض	Dw	Dwadun
ط	Tw	Twa'un
ظ	Zw	Zwa'un
ع	A	Ainun
غ	G	Gainun
ف	F	Fa'un
ق	Q	Qafun
ك	K	Kafun
ل	L	Lamun
م	M	Meemun
ن	N	Noonun
و	W	Wawun
ه	H	Ha'un
ء	A	Hamza
ى	Y	Ya'un

The above table contains all the Arabic alphabets and their pronunciations. As you can see, some English alphabets were repeated or a combination of letters were used to represent an alphabet. This is because some of the Arabic letters like: خ  ,ذ   ,ص ,ض ,ط  ,ظ ,ع ,غ ,ق, do not have exact equivalents in English. Did anybody say "he skipped one alphabet"? I didn't skip any alphabet sir. No, sir. 'لا' LAM-ALIF is not an alphabet sir. It's the combination of 'Lamun' and 'Alifun', that's why it's called 'LAM-ALIF'. I don't care if the ARAB and the SCHOLARS have been including it in the alphabets. I disagree to agree with you and them, sir. If you don't want to agree with me sir, fine. But don't confuse my readers. Ouch, I need some rest!