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Typesetting Arab: sample

The Arabic alphabet ةيِبَرَع ةيِدَجْبا

In addition to the modern order of the Arabic alphabet (which groups consonants of similar shape) there still exists another order, the so-called Abjad order, which is the same as one of the ancient Semitic orders; see the following for variations where different subsitutes for the ancient “samech” (another s , which still exists in Hebrew) are used:

https://en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Abjad numerals

ظ ض ذ خ ث ت ش ر ق ص ف ع س ن م ل ك ي ط ح ز و ه د ج ب ٔا

The first twenty-two letters are essentially the same as the corresponding Hebrew conso- nants and so I learned the Arabic alphabet (in part) by looking at the correponding letter.

There are practical differences between the two alphabets, mainly to do with letters that have a soft and hard variation. For instance Hebrew has a f and p Arabic only has the

f . in addition Arabic treats soft and hard variation as separate letters, whereras Hebrew indicates the difference by an interior dot and so treats f and p as one letter. Hebrew also treats the sin and shin as one letter and indicates the difference by a the position of the dot above the form. Arabic treats these as separate letters and this accounts, in part, for the different Abjad orders.

Arabic -- English Vocabulary

Arabic English

دَي hand

ٌءام water

َبَتَك to write

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The Opening Verses of the Quran

N.B. Not typeset, but copied from a web version of the Quran: [ http://tanzil.net/ ]

ةحتافلا ةروس

بَر ِهـلِل ُدْمَحْلا .ِميِحرلا ِنٰـَمْحرلا ِهـللا ِم ْسِب

. ِنيدلا ِمْوَي ِكِلاَم .ِميِحرلا ِنٰـَمْحرلا .َنيِمَلاَعْلا

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