For children and their parents
Explore the letters
Choose a letter to see its shapes and where its sound comes from, then trace it with a finger to earn a star.
Its shapes
Doesn't join the letter after it.
With the short vowels
Alif itself never carries a short vowel; a hamzah on it or under it does, as here.
Where does the sound come from?
Jawf (open space)
The open space of the throat and mouth, where the long vowels (the madd letters) come from.
Alif is always a long vowel after a fatḥah, so it comes from the open space of the throat and mouth. Hamzah comes from the deepest part of the throat.
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The letters
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