Ḏāl
Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial Glyph form: ذ ـذ ـذ ذ The
South Arabian alphabet
The Gulf, Iraqi, Tunisian dialects use the Classical and Modern
Standard sound of [ð].
In Maghrebi Arabic, it is consistently pronounced as the voiced dental
plosive [d̪].
In Hejazi Arabic, it merges with /d/ or /z/ depending on the word.
Furthermore it keeps its classical value /ð/ in some Classical Arabic
words.
In the
Mashriq
Regardless of these regional differences, the pattern of the speaker's
variety of
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