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  2. Taw - Wikipedia

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    Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت ‎, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Hebrew tav ת ‎, Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin ...

  3. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is a unicameral script written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [b] of which most have contextual letterforms. Unlike the modern Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case.

  4. Ṯāʾ - Wikipedia

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    Ṯāʾ (ث) is the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet, [1] one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents the voiceless dental fricative , also found in English as the "th" in words

  5. History of the Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    When a letter was at the end of a word, it often developed an end loop, and as a result most Arabic letters have two or more shapes, so for example n ن and y ي have different shapes at the end of the words ( ـي , ـن ) but they have the same linked initial and medial shapes ( يـ , نـ ) as b, t, and ṯ ( بـ , تـ and ثـ ), the ...

  6. Taa language - Wikipedia

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    Taa is the word for 'human being'; the local name of the language is Taa ǂaan (Tâa ǂâã), from ǂaan 'language'. ǃXoon (ǃXóõ) is an ethnonym used at opposite ends of the Taa-speaking area, but not by Taa speakers in between. [5] Most living Taa speakers are ethnic ǃXoon (plural ǃXooŋake) or 'Nǀohan (plural Nǀumde). [6]

  7. Arabic phonology - Wikipedia

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    While many languages have numerous dialects that differ in phonology, contemporary spoken Arabic is more properly described as a continuum of varieties. [1] This article deals primarily with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is the standard variety shared by educated speakers throughout Arabic-speaking regions.

  8. Category:Arabic words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Tunisian Arabic words and phrases (3 P) Pages in category "Arabic words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 331 total.

  9. Sun and moon letters - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic Sun consonants in White and Moon consonants in Black The Maltese moon consonants highlighted in black, the sun consonants in white, and the vowels in gray. In Arabic and Maltese, all consonants are classified into two distinct groups known as sun letters (Arabic: حروف شمسية ḥurūf shamsiyyah, Maltese: konsonanti xemxin) and moon letters (Arabic: حروف قمرية ...