Friday, February 19, 2010

Alphabet in pictures

The order that the letters come in is different to other videos posted on this site. This order is called Abjadiyah and it is the old-fashioned order of the letters.

أ ب ج د ﻫ و ز ح ط ي ك ل م ن س ع ف ص ق ر ش ت ث خ ذ ض ظ غ
ʼ b ğ d h w z ḥ ṭ y k l m n s ʻ f ṣ q r š t ṯ ḫ ḏ ḍ ẓ ġ


It's quite illogical, but is still used when numbers are used to count items, such as bullet points in a document or house numbers (see here for more about this usage).