Arabic letters Arabic letters (Ḍād) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents a pharyngealized voiced alveolar plosive ( IPA ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . The phoneme was considered unique to the Arabic language by early Arabic grammarians, and hence Arabic was also known as the "language of the ". South Semitic, however, also continues the phoneme, as South Arabian , Ge'ez ፀ. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ḍād"
(Ḏāl) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiced dental fricative ( IPA ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . ...more on Wikipedia about "Ḏāl"
(Ġayn) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiced velar fricative ( IPA ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ġayn"
(Ḫāʼ) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiceless velar fricative ( IPA ). In name and shape, it is a variant of (see also there). South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian , Ge'ez . ...more on Wikipedia about "Ḫāʼ"
is the reconstructed name of the eighth letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as Phoenician , Syriac , Hebrew (also , heth) , and Arabic (in abjadi order). ...more on Wikipedia about "Heth (letter)"
(Ṯāʼ) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiceless dental fricative ( IPA ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . ...more on Wikipedia about "Ṯāʼ"
(Ẓāʼ) ( ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents a = pharyngealized voiced dental or alveolar fricative ( IPA or ). In name and shape, it is a variant of . ...more on Wikipedia about "Ẓāʼ"
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