Ayin

Ayin or ʿayin is the sixteenth letter in many Semitic abjads , including Phoenician , Aramaic , Hebrew ע and Arabic ʿayn ع (in abjadi order ). It is the twenty-first letter in the new Persian alphabet . It represents a sound approximately like a voiced pharyngeal fricative ( ), which has no equivalent in English. Ayin is usually transliterated into the Latin alphabet with ʿ , (U+02BF) "modifier letter left half ring", a symbol based on the Greek spiritus asper ʽ , for example in the name of the letter itself, ʿayin . The grave accent ` is sometimes used as a substitute. The Maltese language , which uses a Latin alphabet (and is the only Semitic language to do so in its standard form ) writes the ayin as għ . In English and many other languages, Arabic loanwords containing ʿayin ( ع ) are commonly transliterated without it, e.g. Iraq العراق al- ʿ Irāq , Oman عمان ʿ Umān , Saudi Arabia العربية السعودية al- ʿ Arabiyyah as-Sa ʿ ūdiyyah , Arab or Arabic عربي , ʿ Arabī , Amman عمان ʿ Ammān , etc.

Ayin or Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician ʿAyin , Hebrew ʿAyin ע , Aramaic ʿĒ , Syriac ʿĒ ܥ, and Arabic ‘Ayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). ﻉ comes twenty‐first in the New Persian alphabet and eighteenth in Arabic hija’i order . The ʿayin glyph in these various languages represents, or has represented, a voiced pharyngeal fricative ( / ʕ / ), or a similarly articulated consonant, which has no equivalent or approximate substitute in the sound‐system of English. There are many possible transliterations.

Sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets Ayin (also ayn or ain ; transliterated ⟨ ʿ ⟩ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads , including Phoenician ʿayin , Hebrew ʿayin , Aramaic ʿē , Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative ( / ʕ / ) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely). The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letter O . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets This article is about the Semitic letter. Ayin (also ayn or ain ; transliterated ⟨ ʿ ⟩ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts , including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative ( / ʕ / ) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether (thus, in the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely in part due to European influence). The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letter O , O and O . It is also the origin of letter Ƹ . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).

Sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets This article is about the Semitic letter. Ayin (also ayn or ain ; transliterated ⟨ ʿ ⟩ ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts , including Phoenician ʿayin 𐤏, Hebrew ʿayin ע ‎, Aramaic ʿē 𐡏, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع ‎ (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪒‎‎, South Arabian 𐩲 , and Ge'ez ዐ . The letter represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative ( / ʕ / ) or a similarly articulated consonant. In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether. In the revived Modern Hebrew it is reduced to a glottal stop or is omitted entirely. The Phoenician letter is the origin of the Greek, Latin and Cyrillic letters O , O and O . It is also the origin of the Armenian letters Ո and Օ . The Arabic character is the origin of the Latin-script letter Ƹ . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).