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or is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʿAyin 10px, Hebrew ʿAyin , Aramaic ʿĒ 10 px, Syriac ʿĒ (unicode:ܥ), and Arabic ‘Ayn (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). comes twenty‐first in the New Persian alphabet and eighteenth in Arabic hija’i order. The ʿayin glyph in these various languages represents, or has represented, a voiced pharyngeal fricative (), or a similarly articulated consonant, which has no equivalent or approximate substitute in the sound‐system of English. There are many possible transliterations. ==Origins== The letter name is derived from Proto-Semitic ' "eye", and the Phoenician letter had an eye-shape, ultimately derived from the ''ı͗r'' hieroglyph The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Ο, Latin O, and Cyrillic О, all representing vowels. The sound represented by ayin is common to much of the Afrasiatic language family, such as the Egyptian, Cushitic, and Semitic languages. Some scholars believe that the sound in Proto-Indo-European transcribed h3 was similar, though this is debatable. (See Laryngeal theory.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ayin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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