The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin (via the Old Italic alphabet), Cyrillic (via the Greek alphabet) and Hebrew (via Aramaic). A recording of the Indonesian alphabet by Pangus Ho Hear the Indonesian alphabet, with example words: Indonesian pronunciation (Cara Pengucapan) Download an Indonesian (and Malay) pronunciation chart (Excel) Notes There are four digraphs: ng (eng), ny (nye), kh (kha) and sy (sya). The final two only appear in words of Arabic origin. 01. Write down the Arabic alphabet: Start by writing down all the letters of the Arabic alphabet, also known as haroof e abjad. This includes the 28 letters, such as Alif, Ba, Ta, Tha, and so on. 02. Assign numerical values: Each letter in haroof e abjad has a specific numerical value associated with it. Assign these numerical values to each The Arabic alphabet is considered an abjad, meaning it only uses consonants, but it is now considered an "impure abjad". As with other impure abjads, such as the Hebrew alphabet. Punctuation marks were not adopted until the twentieth century. In Arabic short vowels are generally not written. The word abjad is an acronym derived from the first four consonantal shapes in the Arabic alphabet (Alif, Baa, Jeem, Daal). As such abjad designates the letters of the Arabic alphabet in the phrase huroof al-abjad. Nowadays the Arabic alphabet does not follow the sequence a-b-j-d, but rather the order: A-B-T-Th-J-H-Kh-D (the basic shapes of the EnglishClub: Learn English: Vocabulary: Reference: English Alphabet. Follow EnglishClub on X. English Alphabet. The English alphabet has 26 letters. In "alphabetical order", they are: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. Five of the letters are "vowels": a e i o u. The remaining twenty-one letters are "consonants". Greek alphabet, writing system that was developed in Greece about 1000 bce.It is the direct or indirect ancestor of all modern European alphabets. Derived from the North Semitic alphabet via that of the Phoenicians, the Greek alphabet was modified to make it more efficient and accurate for writing a non-Semitic language by the addition of several new letters and the modification or dropping of Bosnian is written with both the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets. Historically it was written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet known as Bosnian Cyrillic from the late 10th century. This alphabet was only used in Bosnia. During the Ottoman era Bosnian was written with a version of the Arabic alphabet. The first Bosnian dictionary, a rhymed ed3s.