Arabic Abjads - The Basics

Why I suddenly come up with these? Umm it's just that in this time and days wherein the Arabic & muslim culture is endangered and misperceived, I'm touched to see some people who are still interested in it. As someone capable of teaching these people a bit about it, I shall guide them into knowing better about the culture.. Even if it's only about the fonts. Well, god taught men with a pen. What's better than first teaching them how to write first? May all our bonds be strenghtened by this.
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Part 1 of 4 of my simplified Arabic abjads tutorial.

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Be noted that the sound these abjads make here are written in the way asians pronounce words.

When not linked(otherwise known as isolated forms) these are what the abjads should look like, kinda. Seeing these are modified as a mean of customization and may seem a bit different from the real thing, but should be recognizable(for example the jim kha kho brothers look a bit different from the original version).

Oh, and do notice that these doesn't make for a complete set of roman alphabets. For example, there are no equilavents of the character 'C'. In cases where they're needed to be written in arabic, just use a similar sounding abjad as a replacement... Though even by then confusions would occur. There are modified abjads that some cultures like mine uses, with a more complete line up, though I'm evading the use of that one since I'm teaching international Arabic abjad standard here. A globally accepted version of it.

Also, the additional characters here.. I'm sure these aren't all of it. There are more, though these three are what you should encounter the most often out of them.

Uses of hamza will be explained on another part of the tutorial.

The modified Ta is no different than the original as far as I'm concerned.. Though comes into use usually as a final abjad(to be explained later) with a change in form.

The Lam 'alif are automatically inherited form if a lam is linked with an alif in front, in this condition it attains this form no matter where they are.