Connecting Characters

ع ‘ʔ = ʕ = ’ = glottal stop’

Letters with vocabulary examples

Final	Medial	Initial	Freestanding
ـع	ـعـ	عـ	ع
شمــع šam’ ‘candle’	مُــعَـلم mo’allem ‘teacher’	عُـقاب oqāb ‘eagle’	مَمنوع mamnu’ ‘prohibited, forbidden’