The idea indeed is that there are a bunch of letters/sounds in Arabic that don't exist in other languages like English. Native Arabic speaker here, I agree with pretty spot on. Wait for the input of a native speaker to have a confirmation or to understand this better.
Arabic transliteration numbers plus#
Plus the goal of a transliteration is not to make a language clearer to those who don't know it, but to put it in another context (this happens for various reasons).
I understand it's hard to read this kind of transliteration (I'm the first who has no idea what they stand for), but for learners and natives it makes way more sense. That said, take my words with a grain of salt, a native speaker can easily disagree.Īs far as I know, using numbers for an Arabic speaker is way simpler than using diacritics or other letters for two reasons: the shape of some Arabic letters look like these numbers (don't forget that the number system we've all learnt in school is called Indo-Arabic because it was created in India and developed by Arabs) and because some represent sounds that are hard to transliterate using the Latin alphabet.
Arabic transliteration numbers how to#
Will you guess how to write a number in full? Enter a number and try to write it down in your head, or maybe on a piece of paper, before displaying the result.I'm not an arabic speaker, but I know one thing or two about this phenomenon. Let’s move now to the practice of the numbering rules in Arabic. The word for million is malioun ( مَلِيُوْن), and the word for billion is maliâr ( مَلِيَار).Two thousand is using the dual form of thousand: alfain ( أَلْفَيْنِ). The word for thousand is alf ( أَلْفٌ).Above twenty-one, compound numbers are formed by stating the unit then the ten, linked with the and word connector ( wa-, وَ).Now that you’ve had a gist of the most useful numbers, let’s move to the writing rules for the tens, the compound numbers, and why not the hundreds, the thousands and beyond (if possible).
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