Ḏāl
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| Phonemic representation | ð (d, z) | |||||||||
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| Position in alphabet | 25 | |||||||||
| Numerical value | 700 | |||||||||
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Ḏāl (ذ, also be transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/. In name and shape, it is a variant of dāl (د). Its numerical value is 700 (see abjad numerals). The Arabic letter ذ is named ذال ḏāl. It is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:
The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for ḏ, 
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