The Arabic alphabet is composed of twenty eight letters.
Arabic language uses long and short vowels, with symbols used to define
pronunciation markers, such as Tashkeel, which can also be used in many
instances to define the meanings of words as well.
Unlike many known world languages, such as English, Spanish, and other
Latin-based languages, instead of going from left to right, Arabic is
written, and read, from right to left.
Of
the twenty eight letters that comprise the Arabic language, fifteen of
the letters contain dots that define the letter itself from others, as
well as from other variations of the same letter.
Although Arabic letters looks a certain way visual when written
individually, when written as a word they change in form to connect to
each other, according to the syntactical rules that govern the language.
Not all letters have a connecting form, and therefore, may stand out
when written in a word, depending on their position (in the beginning,
middle, or end of the word).
