Arabic Vowels

 The Arabic vocalic system has three pairs of phonemes, three long vowels and
three short vowels.
 Arabic vowels never occur word initially.
 They freely occur word finally and word medially.

1- / / ‫ربيع جديد صغير فيل‬

2- / / ‫طاولة ِعنب ِدراما‬
ِ ‫ِدماء‬
3- / / ‫ناما ماء دواء سائل‬
4- / / ‫َمرهم َمقلب‬
5- / / ‫فول دود عنقود عجوز‬
6- / / ‫ُغنة ُمعلم فُل ُكرسي‬

English Vowels

 The English vocalic system is more complex than the Arabic system.
 English has more vowels than Arabic (12 to 6).

1- / / read people dream key

2- / / pen bread met felt said
3- / / listen ship lick pill bin live
4- / / calm half father carp heart cart
5- / / drum come
6- / / pool food cool two choose
7- / / foot book put could look rook
8- / / dog hot pot cod lock box rock
9- / / hat have man pan sand
10- / / bird hurt girl turn worm fur
11- / / cord short port sport forks
12- / / camera water