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Ḫāʼ


'' (, transliterated as either (DIN-31635) or (ISO 233)) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being , , , , ). It represents the voiceless velar fricative (). In name and shape, it is a variant of (see also there). South Semitic also kept the phoneme separate, and it appears as South Arabian
, Ge'ez .
''Ḫāʼ'' is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:

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Arabic phonology

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