Abjadī order:

The special Abjadī order (or two slightly variant orders) was devised by matching an Arabic letter of the fully consonant-dotted 28-letter Arabic alphabet to each of the 22 letters of the Aramaic alphabet (in their old Phoenician alphabetic order, also used by the Hebrew alphabet) — leaving six remaining Arabic letters at the end.

The most common Abjad sequence is (from left to right):

أ‎-ب‎-ج‎-د‎-ﻫ‎-و‎-ز‎-ح‎-ط‎-ي‎-ك‎-ل‎-م‎-ن‎-س‎-ع‎-ف‎-ص‎-ق‎-ر‎-ش‎-ت‎-ث‎-خ‎-ذ‎-ض‎-ظ‎-غ‎
'-b-ǧ-d-h-w-z-ḥ-ṭ-y-k-l-m-n-s-f-ṣ-q-r-š-t-ṯ-ḫ-ḏ-ḍ-ẓ-ġ

This is commonly vocalized as follows:

'bǧad hawwaz ḥuṭṭī kalaman saʻfaṣ qarašat ṯaḫaḏ ḍaẓaġ.
Another vocalization is:

abuǧadin hawazin ḥuṭiya kalman saʻfaṣ qurišat ṯaḫuḏ ḍaẓuġ
Another Abjad sequence, mainly confined to the Maghreb, is:

ﺃ‎ ﺏ‎ ﺝ‎ ﺩ‎ ﻫ‎ ﻭ‎ ﺯ‎ ﺡ‎ ﻁ‎ ﻱ‎ ﻙ‎ ﻝ‎ ﻡ‎ ﻥ‎ ﺹ‎ ﻉ‎ ﻑ‎ ﺽ‎ ﻕ‎ ﺭ‎ ﺱ‎ ﺕ‎ ﺙ‎ ﺥ‎ ﺫ‎ ﻅ‎ ﻍ‎ ﺵ‎
' b ǧ d h w z ḥ ṭ y k l m n ṣ ʻ f ḍ q r s t ṯ ḫ ḏ ẓ ġ š

which can be vocalized as:

abuǧadin hawazin ḥuṭiya kalman ṣafaḍ qurisat ṯaḫuḏ ẓaġuš

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