arabic long & short vowels g jammal fall 2013. 3 long vowels letters 3 short vowelssigns or...
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Arabic Long & Short Vowels
G JammalFall 2013
3 Long Vowels Letters
3 Short Vowels Signs or Symbols
ـــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــــــ ـــــــــــــــــ
ي و ا
Long Vowels:
اAs the (a) sound in
Dad
وAs the (oo) sound in
Food
يAs the (ee) sound in
Deer
Short Vowels: Kasra Damma Fatha
ـ ـــــــــــــAs the (e) sound in
Red
ـــــــــــــــــــــAs the (ou) sound in
Could
ــــــــــــــــــــAs the (i) sound in
Did
• Arabic words do not start with vowels• When you see ي و at the beginning of a word you read their أ
consonant sound:
إAs I in Igloo
أAs U in Uno game
أAs A in Apple
و(As WE in We
و,As WOU in Would
و.As WE in Web
ي(As YI in Yiddish
ي,As You in You'd
ي.As YE in Yes
Examples:
إوز أريد أرز
وداد ورود ورد
يسر يريد يدي