Arabic/LearnRW/Row 2

ط,ظ

Description

The following two letters are often called emphatic. This means that the sound is both pharyngealized and partly velarized. The very back of the tongue is pushed against the back of the throat. In layman's terms, think of pronouncing the sound while simultaneously choking yourself. Phonetically, we write this by adding ˁ right after the sound.

• Taa (ط) makes the [t̪ˁ] sound, like the 't', only emphatic.
• Zaa (ظ) makes the [ðˁ] sound, like the 'th' in "either", only emphatic.

Reference

Three times	Twice	End	Middle	Start	Alone	Name	Phonetic
ططط	طط	ـط	ـطـ	طـ	ط	Taa	[t̪ˁ]
ظظظ	ظظ	ـظ	ـظـ	ظـ	ظ	Zaa	[ðˁ]

Exercises

• Letter-Sound
• Transliteration
• Take-apart (Hallil)
• Put-together (rakkib)