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Do Now
List at least one difference between the Arabic and English alphabet.
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Introduction to ArabicPronouncing the Consonants of the Alphabet
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Essential Question: How does learning the pronunciation of each Arabic consonant help with
pronouncing Arabic words correctly?
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Brief Overview of Arabic
The Arabic language is spoken today by over 250 million people in the Middle East and North Africa.
Arabic is also used as a religious language by the world's Muslims, who total around one billion people.
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ah Sounds like the “a” in “apple”
أ
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ب ba Sounds like the “b” in “boy”
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ت ta Sounds like the “t” in “table”
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ث tha Sounds like the “th” in “think”
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ج Ja Sounds like the “j” in “measure”
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ح hhaa
No equivalent in English; imagine the sound you
make when you want to blow on your reading glasses to clean them; that soft, raspy noise that comes out is the
letter Haa’.
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خ khaa
Sounds a lot like “Bach” in German or “Baruch” in
Hebrew
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د da Sounds like the “d” in “deer”
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ذ tha Sounds like the “th” in “there”
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ر ra Sounds like the “r” in
“Ramadan”
Like the Spanish “r,” rolled really fast
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ز za Sounds like the “z” in “zebra”
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سsa
Sounds like the “s” in “sit”
*with a smile
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شsha
Sounds like the “sh” in “shut”
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ص sau Sounds like the “sau” in “Saul”
A very deep “s” sound you can make if you open
your mouth really wide and lower your jaw
*without a smile
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ضduh
Sounds like the “du” in “duck”
A very deep “d” sound; the exact same sound as a Saad except that
you use a “d” instead of an “s”
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ط tuh Sounds like the “tou” in
“tough”
A deep “t” sound; start off by saying a regular “t” and then lower your mouth to make it
rounder
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ظ thau Sounds line the “th” in
“although”
Take the “th” as in “those” and draw it to the back of your throat
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ع ayan No equivalent in any of the
Romance languages; produced at the very back of the throat. Breathe heavily and consistently through your esophagus and then
intermittently choke off the airflow so that you create a
staccato noise
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غ grrrrr Sounds like the French “r”
in “rendezvous”; it’s created at the back of the
throat
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ف fa Sounds like the “f” in “fez
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ق ka Sounds like the “qa” in “Qatar”
Similar to the letter “k,” but produced much
farther at the back of the throat; you should feel
airflow being constricted at the back of your throat
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ك kay Sounds like “que?” in Spanish
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ل lee Sounds like the “ll” in “llama”
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م meh Sounds like the “m”
in “Mary”
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ن neh Sounds like the “n” in “north”
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ه heh Created by exhaling
heavily; very different from the Haa’ earlier in the list. (Think of yourself as a marathon runner who’s just finished a long race and is breathing heavily through the lungs to replenish your
oxygen.)
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و wah Sounds like the “w” in “winner”
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ي yeh Sounds like the “Eu” in “Eunice”
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Exit Ticket
In complete sentences describe the similarities you found between the English and Arabic alphabets.
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Resources
Arabic for Dummies (pdf): http://www.islamicbulletin.org/free_downloads/other/arabic_for_dummies.pdf
Arabic Without Walls - Culture (website): http://arabicwithoutwalls.ucdavis.edu/aww/alifbaa_unit1/ab1_culture_history.html
Arabic Alphabet Song - Spiderman & Captain America (video) Arabic Alphabet Song - Spiderman & Captain America