Arabic Letter Sounds In English. So it’s the “ah” sound in “hat” or “bat.” in arabic, “ء” produces the same sound that you would make when pronouncing only the letter “a” as in the begging of the word. The first title in the “let’s read arabic” series, this book introduces first sounds of the arabic letters with the vowel “fat.ha”.
Please note that whenever there is a * , that means there is no equivalent in english and that the best way to know how the letter sounds is to click on the sound button. However, unlike in english, in arabic, you actually hold a long vowel twice as long as a short vowel. The arabic alphabet is written and read from right to left and horizontally.
Now, you can deduce from the herein above chart that arabic letters are 29 with the letter hamza, sometimes is regarded as a separate letter.
ث is voiceless, pronounced like the “th” in “thin” and “thought”, and ذ is voiced, pronounced like the “th” in “that” and “then”. The examples given below are meant as a general guide to pronunciation. It is essentially an “a.” in english, when “a” is used in the middle of a word it acts as the accent to the preceding consonant. 'h' actually represents the arabic letter ه which has the same pronunciation.