ḎālḎāl Ḏāl The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for , . When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as . This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is normally rendered "dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in English words it is one of the pronunciations occurring for the letters "th". Pronunciations. Between and within contemporary varieties of Arabic, pronunciation of the letter "" differs: Regardless of these regional differences, the pattern of the speaker's variety of Arabic frequently intrudes into otherwise Modern Standard  speech; this is widely accepted, and is the norm when speaking the mesolect known alternately as "lugha wusṭā" ("middling/compromise language") or "ʿAmmiyyat/Dārijat al-Muṯaqqafīn" ("Educated/Cultured Colloquial") used in the informal speech of educated Arabs of different countries. (cf. Arabic dialect#Formal and vernacular differences) Ḏāl The South Arabian alphabet retained a symbol for , . When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as . This sound is found in English, as in the words "those" or "then". In English the sound is normally rendered "dh" when transliterated from foreign languages, but when it occurs in