| Depending on the region, it ranges from a [ ] to an [ ] | Other variants chosen [ ] to represent ayin as a full grapheme rather than a sign suggestive of an apostrophe or a diacritic :• However, changes in adjoining vowels often testify to the former presence of a pharyngeal or epiglottal articulation |
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| , "Proto-Sinaitic — Progenitor of the Alphabet" Rosetta 9 2011 , 16—40 here: 38—40 | In some Semitic languages and dialects, the phonetic value of the letter has changed, or the phoneme has been lost altogether thus, in it is reduced to a or is omitted entirely |
In Arabic, the presence of ayin in front of u can sometimes be inferred even if it is not rendered separately, as the vowel quality is shifted towards o e.
18| Media related to at Wikimedia Commons | The Phoenician letter gave rise to the , Latin , and , all representing vowels |
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| The sound represented by ayin is common to much of the , such as in the , the and the | Cornell Studies in Political Economy |
's Grundriss Der Vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen, 1908; Friedrich Delitzsch, Paul Haupt eds.
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