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Nayef Al-Sinnawi
Student #:1091670
The different between English and Arabic letters
The Instructor Name: Wael Abdeen

Phonetics is: concerned with describing speech.
All the letters in the alphabet symbolize either vowels or consonant. Vowels have no contact made when spoken. * There are only five letters used to write vowels in English. They stand for about 20 vowel sounds in most English accents, so these letters are a source of ambiguity in pronunciation for educated people. These letters are vowels:
(A, I, E, O, and U ) .
In all vowels, the mouth passage is unobstructed, and all of them are voiced.

The (w,y) is considered as semi vowels

Letters | Place of articulation | Manner of articulation | Examples | j | Palatal | Glide | Yellow | W | Bilabial | Glide | Way |
However, in Arabic language there are two kinds of vowels, (long, and short vowels) on one hand, long vowels are: Letters | Place of articulation | Manner of articulation | Examples | ا | Glottal | Fricative | إنسان | و | Bilabial | Glide | ورده | ي | Palatal | glide | يوم |

On anther hands short vowels are: (فتحه,كسره,ضمه,شده, سكون,(مد.
Below is a table summarizing the short vowel Sign | Name | Sound | بَ | فتحه | a | بِ | كسره | i | بُ | ضمه | u | بّ | شده | We can make the letter twice | بْ | سكون | The sound still same | آ | مد | prolongs the <a>-sound of the nayef |

*consonant in English: if it is obstructed at any during the production of a speech sound, the resulting sound will be consonant.
Consonant could be voiced or