A B C D .... Y Z | English to Arabic | (2024)

Explanation:
Alphabets were invented merely as an inventory of shapes to represent the inventory of sounds used to make words. In that sense, there is some correspondence between the Arabic and the English alphabets, but the correspondence is understandably limited. Other than L,M,N, and R, it is hard to find a letter in Arabic and a letter in English that stand uniquely for exactly the same sound or even the same sound class.

In other words, it is not just the letter sequence that is different. If it were so, we would be able to simply re-arrange the letters for teaching purposes. As it is, there is no way to accomplish even that.

But alphabets have found other usages for themselves. We use them, for instance, to designate bullets, just as we use numbers. When we do that in Arabic, we traditionally we use the old Semitic alphabetical order, not the present day Arabic alphabet, although Microsoft Word will give you a hard time if you try to do that. The old sequence goes:

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ

أ
ب
ج
د

هـ
و
ز

ح
ط
ي

ك
ل
م
ن

س
ع
ف
ص

ق
ر
ش
ت

ث
خ
ذ

ض
ظ
غ

If this is what you mean, then yes, there is a correspondence, but it has nothing to do with the letters themselves and what they stand for, but merely a correspondence of sequence, which is accidental.

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Note added at 2003-05-03 12:51:43 (GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you for calrifying what you meant. Now that I understand your question, I can give a more definite answer:

There is some correspondence between the Arabic and the English alphabets, but the correspondence is extremely limited. Other than a few letters, it is not posible at all to construct a scheme in which a letter in Arabic and a letter in English stand uniquely for exactly the same sound or even the same sound class. Any proposed scheme will be entirely unfounded.

Thanks again for clarifying your question.