gimel
Sign in to saveGimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician gīml 𐤂, Hebrew gīmel , Aramaic gāmal 𐡂, Syriac gāmal ܓ Arabic jīm . Ancient North Arabian 𐪔, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
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- Arabic Jīm
- Pronunciation
- Historical pronunciation
- Pronunciation across other languages
- Variant
- Hebrew gimel
- Variations
- Significance
- Syriac gamal/gomal
- Other uses
- Mathematics
- Character encodings
- References
- External links
Gimel is the third (in alphabetical order; fifth in spelling order) letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician gīml 𐤂, Hebrew gīmel , Aramaic gāmal 𐡂, Syriac gāmal ܓ Arabic jīm . Ancient North Arabian 𐪔, South Arabian , and Ge'ez .
Its sound value in the original Phoenician and in all derived alphabets, except Arabic, is a voiced velar plosive ; in Modern Standard Arabic, it represents either a or for most Arabic speakers except in Northern Egypt, the southern parts of Yemen and some parts of Oman where it is pronounced as the voiced velar plosive .