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Do you recall when you were a kid
breaking words into syllables? Why? For more proficient reading. This is what
we will proceed to do now!
Syllables allow us to "group" letters together within words. Recognizing
the individual letters with a word is not enough for literacy.
How do we break words into syllables?
Four rules:
Where, C = consonant; v = short vowel; vv = long vowel.
 RULE
1: Cv
---- A consonant that carries
a short vowel is a syllable
RULE
2: Cvv
---- A consonant that carries
a long vowel is a syllable
RULE
3: Always after a
sequoun there is a syllabic break!
Note: Think of each consonant as "holding hands" with a short or
a long
vowel. These consonants are buddies with their corresponding vowel.
Good friends. They will not let go of each other! They comprise a
syllable.
Meanwhile, if a consonant with its short or long vowel sees an adjacent
sequoun they feel sorry for the sequoun -- because it is all by itself.
So what do they do? They let the sequoun join in and they all become
friends -- they all become one syllable.
RULE
4:
C/C
---- If you see a letter carrying a
shadda then this means there are
two copies of the letter. The first copy must carry a
sequoun
resulting in a syllabic break after it. Shaddas do not appear on
vowels. (A further understanding of the shadda will help with this rule
but you should pretty much have if from this brief explanation!)
Example:
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مُهَنْدِسْ
3
mo-han-dis
-engineer masc. |
Let us divide
مُهَنْدِسْ
into syllables:
Buddy 1:
مُ
A consonant with a
short vowel.
Buddy 2:
هَنْ
A consonant with a short
vowel
and the adjacent sequoun.
Buddy 3:
دِسْ A consonant with
a short vowel and the adjacent sequoun.
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