Saturday, June 30, 2012

Today's Arabic lesson is the vowels


Today's Arabic lesson is the 3 diacritic vowels, "ah", "ee" and "oo".
"Diacritics" are marks or symbols above or below the letters that signify the vowel sounds.

For our purposes today, we'll view 3 vowels with the letter "daal" د.

"ah" is a short line above the letter daal like so: دَ

"ee" is a short diagonal line below the letter daal like so: دِ

"oo" is a curly-que sybol above the letter daal like so: دُ




"hamza"  ء  was yesterday's character.
Today we covered the simple vowels.
Tomorrow, we'll review the whole months of January!

For a thorough explanation of diacritics, see here.

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