Ajin

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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

Examples

  • עֵשָׂו ʿEśaṿ : Esau
  • עזה ʿAzah : Gaza

Character encoding

Unicode codepoint U + 05E2
Unicode name HEBREW LETTER AYIN
HTML & # 1506;
ISO 8859-8 0xF2

Web links

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