Ajin
Ajin or Ayn ( עַיִן ʿAjin , German for 'eye' ) is the sixteenth letter in the Hebrew alphabet . It has the numerical value 70. In the Arabic alphabet there is a letter corresponding in pronunciation and origin .
pronunciation
In ancient Hebrew, the Ajin was a sound that was spoken deep in the throat and that does not appear in European languages. In New Hebrew this pronunciation is only used by Yemeni Jews , in the New Hebrew standard pronunciation the letter denotes the same crackling sound as the Aleph .
history
The Hebrew Ajin has the same historical background as the Phoenician Ajin, which was originally the pictorial representation of an eye with a point in the middle. In Greek, the Semitic consonant became the vowel omicron , from which the Greek omega and the Latin O developed.
Audio samples
- in classic pronunciation. The ajin is between the twoa.
- in classic pronunciation. The Ajin is at the beginning of the word.
Examples
Character encoding
Unicode codepoint | U + 05E2 |
Unicode name | HEBREW LETTER AYIN |
HTML | & # 1506; |
ISO 8859-8 | 0xF2 |