Start Learning Arabic by Mastering Arabic Numbers

Start Learning Arabic by Mastering Arabic Numbers Your Guide to Numbers in Arabic ChaptersWhy Should You Learn Arabic Numbers and Arabic numerals?In Which Direction Do You Read Arabic Numbers?Why Do We Say Arabic Numerals?Learn to Count: Arabic Numbers 1-10Arabic Numbers - A Few Exceptions For Numbers 11 to 19Counting From 20 to 99 in Arabic - Understanding the Logic of Arabic NumbersHow Do You Make the Large Numbers in Arabic?How Do You Tell the Time in Arabic?How Do You Count in Arabic? Use Apps!Not Quite So Easy: Learning to Count in ArabicBonus Tip: Arabic KeyboardsLearning Arabic numbers is one of the essential building blocks of learning the Arabic language. It’s a first introduction to a new language, alongside the Arabic alphabet and its script.If you master the Arabic alphabet and numbers, you’ll be ready to learn Arabic in earnest, whether you’re focusing on Modern Standard Arabic, also known as literary Arabic, or a spoken dialect.We hate to tell you, but Arabic is generally considered one of the hardest languages to learn for English speakers, ac cording to linguists. However, learning Arabic numbers can be a pleasant surprise, learning to count in Arabic is relatively easy and painless.Arabic is one of the fastest growing languages in the western world, so what are you waiting for?Just by learning a few new Arabic numbers, you’ll be ready to count to even the highest of numbers. One of the Arabic language's many contributions to the modern world which may surprise you is that our modern numbers have their basis in the Arabic numeral system, which took over from Roman numbers in Europe during the Middle Ages.Whether it's in subtraction, multiplication, fractions or any other mathematical equation, Arabic has had an important impact. But perhaps modern algebra has benefited the most from the Arab world, mainly through ancient Egyptian developments which built on the Greek expansion in the use of algebra beforehand.But in which direction do you read Arabic numbers?Why do we talk about ‘Arabic numerals’ in English?Are the re other easy ways to quickly master counting in Arabic?People who study French or German also vaguely know how to count in Spanish…at least to 10.Same thing for Spanish and French speakers counting in German. But why not go further? Why not learn Arabic numbers and numerals in their entirety?Plus, as you’ll see below, Arabic numbers follow a much more logical pattern than French or English numbers.For those people who are really looking to learn Arabic quickly, get some exposure to the Arabic culture, and of course, learn to speak Arabic, the numbers are one of the first things that you’ll learn in your study of the language or in an Arabic class, just like the Arabic alphabet!The mathematicians among us will grasp the importance of numbers easily, for others numbers and mathematics propose a confusing sea of symbols and digits that is made even more difficult when we are confronted with a calculation that requires the need to convert or add a decimal in. But you don't need t o be a mathematician or a scientist to count in Arabic.Arabic is widely believed to be one of the most difficult languages to learn, so it's therefore important to take advantage of everything that is our there to help you out. There's nothing better for your efforts to learn Arabic than to go live in one of the many Arabic speaking countries, but to do so, you’ll need to know how to count from 1 to several million.Knowing Arabic numbers will be a great asset in many areas of daily life:WorkNegotiationsMath and arithmeticsciencepaying and buying thingsAgeHeightWeightTimeDays and monthsDate of birthSportsDistancesand of course, for your Arabic lessons.Learning Arabic numbers will help you with many different activities as you go about your daily life. They will help you hold your own in a conversation with a native speaker, without constantly referencing your Arabic dictionary to understand what they're saying and compose a response.When you learn a new language, it’s impossible to ignore also learning the numbers and counting in that language. Think of your time in preschool, when you learned to count before ever attempting to read. It’s the same thing for Arabic! Learning to count is key for navigating daily life and surviving an immersion experience in any Arabic speaking country.After all, how will you manage the souk in Marrakesh if you don’t know the basics of Arabic math?In Which Direction Do You Read Arabic Numbers?French, Spanish, English, German, and many other languages are read from left to right, as you already know. This often turns into one of the first stumbling blocks for Arabic students as they work on learning Arabic and the Arabic alphabet.And this is because the Arab language, which counts almost 300 million native speakers (420 million if you include all the people who use it as a second language, and one billion if you count all the Muslims who consider it a sacred language.) is read from right to left.Arabic is a Semitic language , which we would say is sinistro (from the Latin for left) verse, in contrast to many other Indo-European languages, which are generally read from left to right and are dextroverse.Hieroglyphics, Cuniform letters and Oscan (the first known language) are all written from right to left. Arabic is descended from another language written from right to left, Aramaic. This historical heritage is one of the reasons that Arabic is still read from right to left today.An Arabic class for speakers of English is a better way to learn to count in Arabic than a mathematics class.What’s a bit confusing, is that Arabic numbers are written from left to right. In Arabic, the largest numbers are on the left, and the smallest numbers on the right.The direction you read in doesn’t change though. When you read or say a number, you begin with the smallest figure.So while in English to say 247 you would say two-hundred and forty-seven, in Arabic you say seven, forty, two-hundred.Telephone numbers are t he exception in Arabic, so they are read out number by number, from left to right, the same as we would say them in English.Why Do We Say Arabic Numerals?You’ve almost certainly heard of Arabic numerals before.We say it commonly in English, because our numbers that we use are originally from the Arabic language. Even if we also use Roman numerals.But are our numbers really already the same as in Arabic? It would mean there isn’t too much to learn…Confusingly, Arabic speaking people and Muslims call them Hindi numerals, which originated in India. Essentially, what we know as Arabic numerals were actually borrowed by the Arabs from the Indians in the 9th century. These numbers underwent several changes in North Africa, until they reached the form we recognize today as Arabic numerals. They more or less still bear a resemblance to their Indian cousins.As North Africa is the mostly western point of the Arabic speaking world, these numbers are also sometimes called ‘Western Arabi c numerals.’ It was during the Umayyad conquest of Spain that these numbers were first introduced in Europe and then further West, where they gained the name ‘Arabic numerals.’Reading sacred texts in Arabic is a good way to improve your language skills and learn about the culture at the same time.Learn to Count: Arabic Numbers 1-10In order to learn the Arabic numbers and numerals, you’ll first need to learn how to count from 0 to 10.They’ll obviously be the most important numbers for you to learn, since they make up all the other Arab combined numbers!Some of the numbers, like 1 and 9 look like the English version, but others look quite different. Some are even a bit confusing, like the 6 that looks like an English 7, or an Arabic 5, which looks like an English zero. And then the Arabic zero looks like our period!What we call Arabic numerals are actually descendants of Hindi numbers.What about Moroccan numbers?You should also know that Arabic vocabulary is different in dif ferent North African countries. In Moroccan Arabic, the numbers are even pronounced differently:One : Ouahed,Two :  Jouje,Three :  Tleta,Four :  Arbaha,Five : Khamsa,Six :  Seta,Seven :  Sebaa,Eight :  Temnya,Nine :  Tèssha.Ten : 'AshraHere’s a video that can help you learn how to count in Moroccan Arabic:Tunisian and Algerian Arabic dialects have a few variations due to the pronunciation, but they aren’t too different, thanks to classical Arabic.Arabic Numbers - A Few Exceptions For Numbers 11 to 19In English, there are just two exceptions to the general pattern for numbers 11 to 19 - 11 and 12. But from thirteen, you’re just fixing ‘teen’ to the end of the number.In Spanish or French, it takes until 16 (diez y seis in Spanish) before the numbers start to follow a pattern and you’re just adding 10 to the final number.In Arabic, the only number with an exception is 11, after which all the numbers follow the pattern of just adding 10. So really, it’s a lot easier to le arn the numbers in Arabic than in Spanish or French.As you can see below, the smaller number is read before the ten, just like we explained earlier.With the exception of 11 and 12, the smaller numbers are pronounced just the same as on their own, but with the addition of a -ta followed by an -ashar. For example, in Arabic the number 7 is called  ??????  (sab’ah) and so, the number 17 is  ??????? ?????  (sab’ata  â€™ashar).Like we said before, in Arabic you read from right to left.Thankfully, the writing of numbers in Arabic is totally logical, and follows a similar pattern to English. You use 1 for ‘ten’ and the other numbers as follows.!Good luck with your Arabic ??? ????? hza saeidaan