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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 .

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14 sections
Contents
  • 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 .

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