Arabic abjad in English alphabets: An observation

Correction. The title says “English alphabets” but actually it should be “Roman alphabets”.

Roman alphabets, like many other languages, go in one sequence of letters.
A, B, C, …, Z.

But I think most of us are aware that Arabic has two sequences.
One is the commonly used one, called *hija’i *

ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک ل م ن و ہ ی

The second sequence of letters in Arabic is called abjadi order.
It goes like this:

ا ب ج د ھ و ز ح ط ی ک ل م ن س ع ف ص ق ر ش ت ث خ ذ ض ظ غ

This is vocalized as:
ا ب ج د (abjad), ھ و ز (hawwaz), ح ط ی (hutti), ک ل م ن(kalaman), س ع ف ص (sa’fas), ق ر ش ت (qarashat), ث خ ذ (thakhaz), ض ظ غ (dadhagh)

While keeping the abjadi order shown above, take a look at Roman alphabets.
You will realize that it is also based on abjadi order!

ا ب ج د = ابجد= A B C D
ک ل م ن = کلمن = K L M N
ق ر ش ت = قرشت = Q R S T

I bet you never looked at the Roman alphabets from that angle. Interesting, isn’t it?

Re: Arabic abjad in English alphabets: An observation

interesting

Re: Arabic abjad in English alphabets: An observation

cool:hmmm: