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Arabic is not Aramaic. Please correct your sources. I’m also quite curious about the sounds of “ch” and “zh” which exist in Arabic as ش and ج, or did you mean
by omneity 1y ago
Arabic is not Aramaic. Please correct your sources.
I’m also quite curious about the sounds of “ch” and “zh” which exist in Arabic as ش and ج, or did you mean something else?
- behnamoh 1y ago"ch" is written as "چ" in Persian (sounds like channel). "zh" is written as "ژ" in Persian (sounds like bourgeoisie in French).
- omneity 1y agoLooking at the Persian IPA table[0] for the letters you wrote, we get `/ʒ/` for `ژ` and `/tʃʰ/` for `چ` In Arabic[1], there are two close phonemes: `/dʒ/` for `ج` and `/ʃ/` for `ش` The difference in both phonemes is minimal and are practically affricates[2] of each other (where `d` or `t` can precede a `ʒ` or a `ʃ`), so it seems these sounds are present in both Arabic and Persian. These variations are also within the dialectal distribution of either languages. For example `ج` is pronounced `/dʒ/` in Algeria and `/ʒ/` in Morocco. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Persian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Persian 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Arabic 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affricate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affricate