Arabic letters take on a different form and shape – depending on where you encounter them.
To be able to read and write the Arabic script, you have to distinguish four different types of forms for each letter:
 
If you search for only the letter – without the context of a word – that's what we call the isolated form of that letter.
And within the written word, each letter can take on three different forms and shapes – depending on whether you encounter the letter at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of a word.

The following tables will teach you the Arabic alphabet, its letters – and all their different forms.

The following table shows you the form of the Arabic letters as they change in different positions:
position 1 (pos1): at the beginning of a word
position 2 (pos2): in the middle of a word
position 3 (pos3): at the end of the word

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The Arabic Alphabet