Ḏāl
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| Arabic alphabet | |||||
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| ا ب ت ث ج ح | |||||
| خ د ذ ر ز س | |||||
| ش ص ض ط ظ ع | |||||
| غ ف ق ك ل | |||||
| م ن ه و ي | |||||
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Ḏāl (ﺫ) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʼ, ḫāʼ, ḍād, ẓāʼ, ġayn). It represents the voiced dental fricative (IPA: [ð] voiced dental fricative). In name and shape, it is a variant of dāl. Its numerical value is 700 (see Abjad numerals).
This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is normally rendered "dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in English words it is one of the pronunciations occurring for the letters "th".
The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for ḏ, 
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Ḏāl is written is several ways depending on its position in the word:
| Position in word: | Isolated | Initial | Medial | Final |
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| Form of letter: | ﺫ | ﺫـ | ـﺫـ | ـﺫ |
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