How many alphabets are in Arabic?
What are the 28 Arabic letters?
What are the 3 forms of the Arabic alphabet?
These are the common questions that come to the mind of a person who wants to learn Arabic as a secondary language.
Arabic has 28–29 letters. This difference is because the letters alif and hamza are interchangeable.
So some scholars count Arabic letters 28 and some others 29.
Here is a detailed guide to the Arabic Alphabet.
Facts To Know About Arabic Alphabets
- Arabic letters are always read and write from right to left.
- The Arabic Letters are always cursive.
- Letters vary the shape depending the position in the word.
- Letters may have up to 4 different shapes depending on position in word.
- There is no upper and lower case in Arabic letters.