ʻayn
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| Phonemic representation | ʕ | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet |
18 (9 in Maltese) |
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| Numerical value |
70 (no numeric value in Maltese) |
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18
70
Ayin or Ayn is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʿayin 
, Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē 
, Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is eighteenth in abjadi order only). ﻉ comes twenty‐first in the Persian alphabet and eighteenth in the hijaʾi order of Arabic.
The ʿayin glyph in these various languages represents or used to represent a voiced pharyngeal fricative (/ʕ/) or a similarly articulated consonant, of which there is not even an approximate substitute sound in English. There are many possible transliterations.
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