Alphabet – Lesson 5

How should vowels be written at the end of words? For the three long vowels that are written as separate letters, the rule is simple; use their ending forms. For the three short vowels, follow this table:

So, short vowels are written as separate characters when they are word-final. Things are definitely getting complicated. For all of these letters we already know one or more sounds. The good news is that there is actually only one (common) word in Persian that ends with the “a” short vowel sound (the first example below).