) are
used as long vowels or diphthongs and also play a role as weak
consonants. To help those who are not
well verse in Arabic Grammar, the vowels signs have been developed for
those who are learning Arabic as second language.Arabic Language,
Arabic is a living Semitic language and classified as South Central Semitic (other semitic language are Hebrew spoken in Palestine by Jews and Amharic which may be spoken in Ethiopia.
Unlike other Semitic languages, which are mostly disappeared, Arabic , the language of Quran retains its old grammar, syntax and vocabulary.
Muslims give reverence to Arabic language because of Almighty Allah has selected the Arabic language to reveal the final message to the mankind in form of heavenly book the Holy book of Qura'an
Today, Arabic is a unifying bond among Muslims, and use daily in all obligatory Islamic divine services. Several non-Arab Muslims countries have adopted the Arabic script for their own language such as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia, parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
In late 1920 regime of Kamal, of Turkey has prohibted the use of Arabic script and replaced it with Latin scripts. In early 90's Turkey and its 60 million people have begun to question the anti-Islamic reforms introduced by Kamal.
The sound system of Arabic has 29 letters, according to the agreed upon view of
scholars, grammarians and phoneticians including Khalil Nahwi and Allamah Jazri,
( 28 in Modern Standard Arabic) Three of them
Alif, waw and Ya are used as long vowels or diphthongs
and also play a role as weak consonants. Like all other Semitic
language Arabic produced guttural sounds far back in the mouth and throat. Each of the three vowels in standard Arabic occurs in a long and short form, creating the long and short syllables
Arabic has a very regular system of conjugating verbs and altering their stems to indicate variations on the basic meaning. This system is so regular that dictionaries of Arabic can refer to verbs by a number system (I-X). From the root k-s-r, the form I verb is kasar,"he broke"; form II is kassar,"he smashed to bits"; and form VII is inkasar,"it was broken up."
Nouns and adjectives are less regular in formation, and have many different plural patterns. The so-called broken plurals are formed by altering the internal syllable shape of the singular noun. For example, f
The Arabic script, which is derived from that of Aramaic, is written from right to left. It is based on maximum 18 distinct shapes that vary according to their connection to preceding or following letters. Using a combination of dots above and below 8 of these shapes, the full complement of 29 consonants and the 3 long vowels can be fully spelled out.
In English a,e,i,o and u
(also y ) are
the vowels which are clearly spelled out in a text whereas in
Arabic they are not. Thre are no exact correspondences between English and
Arabic vowels; they may differ in quality, and they may behave differently under
certain circustances.
There are 29 letters in Arabic alphabets which all are consonants but
( letter alif, waw and Ya ) are
used as long vowels or diphthongs and also play a role as weak
consonants. To help those who are not
well verse in Arabic Grammar, the vowels signs have been developed for
those who are learning Arabic as second language.
Unlike English, in Arabic there are two type of vowels; The six vowels fall into two groups (1) short vowels (2) long vowels.
(1) vowel signs "Haraka"
also known as short vowels 
"a" 
"i" 
and "u"
which are not part of Arabic alphabets
(2) vowels letters long vowels
"aa" "ii" and "uu"
one of their function is to slightly lengthened the short vowels described in
(1) above