BBC Languages Arabic A Guide to Arabic. Where did the vowels go The Arabic alphabet, or   el abjadiyya, consists of 2. Arabic is a consonantic language which means vowels could theoretically be omitted when writing words. However, spoken Arabic obviously has vowel sounds. They are indicated by diacritical marks placed above or below the letters. TypoGrid is a smart tool for typedesigners and graphic designers helps them to create pixel arts based on the grids system developed by Qassim Haider. These vowel signs or   harakat attanween, short vowels, differentiate between the several sounds and meanings that the same sequence of consonants can have. With the use of these signs, the word   ilm, knowledge without vowel signs, becomes   ilm, knowledge with vowel signs,   alam, flag,   alima, he found out, and   olim, understood. It is possible to see these words written without vowel signs in everyday use, e. A single dot makes a big difference. Several letters in the Arabic alphabet share the same shape and are differentiated only by the number and placement of dots above or below, e. The letter   noun, becomes. So, when writing in Arabic, forgetting a single dot could lead to a lot of confusion Direction and attachment. Arabic words and sentences are written and read from right to left and books and papers from back to front. However, Arabic numbers are read and written from left to right. There is no upper or lower case and there are multiple forms to write a single letter. This is the letter ayn in an isolated position  . If it comes at the beginning of a word, it looks like this. If it comes at the end of a word, it would be written in a final form. And if it comes anywhere else in a word, you would write it in a medial form. Kelsi Monroe, Anikka Albrite. Arabic words are always written with joined up letters, except for the letters   alif,   dal,   thal,   ra,   zain, and   waw, which can only be attached to the letter that precedes them, and not the one that follows them. In the word   sour, wall, the letter   waw, is attached to the one that precedes it, but detached from the one that follows it. When writing becomes an art form Artistic Arabic writing, or calligraphy, has developed over a thousand years, both for the Quran and other books, and for inscriptions on monuments and buildings as decoration. Its still widely used and is considered by Arabs to be a major form of art, reflecting the beauty and the wealth of their culture. Email and website conventions. When giving an email or website address the conventions are. Shree Lipi Most Popular Multilingual Software. Whats New in 7. 4. File to File Conversion for Doc files All Gujarati fonts in Shree Lipi Dev Ratna 6. 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