How Is Arabic Written?

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  • How do you read Arabic?

    Semitic languages like Arabic and Hebrew are read from right to left. These languages have a sinistroverse sense of reading. On the contrary, in Latin cultures the sense of writing from left to right is called dextroverse.

    Find out more about how to write Arabic in this podcast.
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  • How do you write in the Arabic language?
    Jan 14 2022
    How do you write Arabic?

    The Arabic writing system is known as "abjad", because this was the original order of the letters alif, baa, Jeem, Daal.

    Write the words from right to left and the numbers from left to right.

    Connect letters together within a word.

    Six letters cannot be connected to the left.

    Find out more in this podcast.
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