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Arabic on the computer is still in its infancy. Arabic has to be put on the internet as a picture so it takes up a lot of space. As text, it takes up less space, but you must have Arabic fonts to read it. Have you got some from Apple or MS Arabic Windows? or Windows 95 English Sakhr Arabic beta plug-in for Netscape Communicator 4? Go to a sample of Arabic text on the internet to see Arabic HTML text..

• The first letters of the Arabic Alphabet are Alif, Ba, Ta--that's where the Greeks got the name!
• The Arabic numbers--let's start with zero, or Sifr, which gave us the word "cipher!" Here goes:
• Sifr, Wahed, Tineen, Thalatha, Arba', Khamsa, Sitte, Sab'a, Thamania, Tis'a, Ashara
• Arabic Sentence is in the same order as the English sentence, but you don't neet the verb to be.

Alphabet

Unusual sounds, No-verb-to-be & Questions

And it's also a good idea to use the simple sentence (without the verb to be) a lot, with questions and answers.

For example. What is this? = Shu hatha? Shu means "what". Hatha means "this."

Or, for example: This is a spoon = Hatha ma'laqa. Hatha means "this." Ma'laqa means "spoon"

Last updated on Tuesday, February 6, 2001.