Keyboards with vowels
Arabic and Hebrew are usually written without short vowels, but adding them helps you read, learn or quote a religious text accurately. These keyboards with vowels give you a panel of signs to place after each letter.
Compatible keyboards
Why write with vowels
Without vowels, the same written word can often be read in several ways. In Arabic, كَتَبَ (“he wrote”) is told apart from words spelled with the same letters only by its harakat; in Hebrew, niqqud plays the same role. Vowels are therefore valuable for beginners, school books, poetry and sacred texts.
Arabic and Hebrew: two vowel panels
- Arabic keyboard with vowels: the “Vowel marks (harakat)” panel contains fatha, damma, kasra, their tanwin forms, sukun, shadda, the dagger alif and the tatweel.
- Hebrew keyboard with vowels: the “Vowel points (niqqud)” panel brings together fourteen signs, including patah, qamats, dagesh, sheva, the three hataf vowels and the shin and sin dots.
Good to know
The site does not vocalize text for you: every sign is placed by hand, which leaves you in charge of the result. Vowels are standard Unicode characters and survive copy and paste into an email, a document or a messaging app. If design software displays harakat badly, the Arabic keyboard’s design software mode has a “Remove vowel marks” option.