/nûn/, [
] is drawn with a round loop overlaid by one dot when standing alone or as the
last letter in a word. It is written like a flattened loop [
] at the beginning of a word or
agin like an /i/ at the middle of a word [
].
Transliteration
Arabic Alone
Initial position
Middle position
Final position
/nûn/, /n/
Respectively, the letters that look like /nûn/, [
] are written this way:
Transliteration
Arabic Alone
Initial position
Middle position
Final position
/bâ'/
/tâ'/
/thâ'/
The vowel /Yâ/
Special attention should be paid to the /'ayn/ letter:
, as well
as to the /ghayn/ letter:
.
/'ayn/ is not difficult to pronounce when standing alone, but can easily disappear when
inside a word. The sound is close to the letter /ghayn/ so they must be clearly
distinguished.
The /tâ' marbû/ is somewhat different from the letter /tâ'/
(the last letter representation towards your left hand, written [
]).
It actually belongs to a category of itself. It is more a femine mark than a letter, which
means it marks the feminine of nouns. In most cases it should not be pronounced, but
when suffixes follow, it is pronounced as a normal /t/ (it is a mixture of the letters /hâ'/
and /tâ'/ since it can be pronounced both ways).
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