Harakat

Arabic letters are consonants and they don’t read on its own. The letters are spoken by the following signs on the top or bottom. We call this signs as harakat which means movement.
There are three harakat; fatha, kasrah, and damma.

Fatha Ustun-65px50

The Fatha sign is a small line placed above a letter. The Fatha enables the letter to produce the soft letters blue boxes with a short “a” sound except ع – ر – ح.

If the Fatha sign on the gruff letters green boxes produce a slightly more “o” sound.

Let’s read the first words.

Kasrah Esre-65px50

The Kasrah sign is a small line placed below a letter. The Kasrah gives the “ee” sound as in “deed” to the letter that it accompanies and if the letter is a soft letter blue boxes it reads light and if it is a gruff letter green boxes that it accompanies it gives a thicker “e” sound as in “soccer”.

Below, the letters that make up a word are written separately and then adjacently.

Damma Otre-65px50

The Dammah sign is a small curl placed above a letter and it enables the letter to produce a short “u” sound.

The sign on the letters produce the soft letters blue boxes with an “u” sound like juice, Tunusia, june. The gruff letters green boxes produce a slightly more “o” sound like Quran, root.

Below, the letters that make up a word are written separately and then adjacently.

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