1. Arabic Long & Short Vowels
G Jammal
Fall 2013

2. ـــــــــــــــــــــُ
3 Long Vowels Letters
3 Short Vowels Signs or Symbols ي و ا
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3. ي و ا Long Vowels: Food As the (ee) sound in Deer As the (oo) sound in
As the (a) sound in
Dad

4. ِــــــــــــــــــــ َــــــــــــــ
Short Vowels:
Kasra Damma Fatha
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As the (i) sound in
Did
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As the (ou) sound in
Could
َــــــــــــــ
As the (e) sound in
Red

5. إِ أُ أَ وِ وُ وَ يِ يُ يَ Arabic words do not start with vowels
When you see أ و ي at the beginning of a word you read their consonant sound: إِ
As I in Igloo أُ
As U in Uno game أَ
As A in Apple وِ
As WE in We وُ
As WOU in Would وَ
As WE in Web يِ
As YI in Yiddish يُ
As You in You'd يَ
As YE in Yes

6. إِوَز أُريد أَرز وِداد وُرود وَرد يِسِر يُريد يَدي
Examples:
إِوَز
أُريد
أَرز
وِداد
وُرود
وَرد
يِسِر
يُريد
يَدي