 Alusalman, it is pronounced like d: . c has a strong guttural sound, pronounced by a smart compression of the upper part of the wind-pipe, and forcible emission of the breath. Its correct pronunciation is rarely heard in India, and is scarcely to be acquired...  A Grammar of the Hindustani Or Urdu Language - Page 6by John Thompson Platts - 1874 - 399 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Carl Paul Caspari - Arabic language - 1862 - 610 pages
...guttural, related in its nature to _, with which it is sometimes confounded. It is described as produced by a smart compression of the upper part of the windpipe and forcible emission of the breath. It is wrong to treat it, in any of the Shemitic languages, as a mere vowel -letter, or (worse still)... | |
 | John Thompson Platts - Persian language - 1894 - 366 pages
...strongly articulated palatal 2. ./ fc ' in Arabic, is a strong guttural. It is described as produced by a smart compression of the upper part of the windpipe and forcible emission of the breath. The Persians, however, make scarcely any distinction between it and the consonant 1 alif. It is simply... | |
 | Leonard C. Smithers - Fairy tales - 1894 - 450 pages
...represent the Arabic letter c in whose very name 'Ayn it occurs. The 'Ayn is " described as produced by a smart compression of the upper part of the windpipe and forcible emission of breath," imparting a guttural tinge to a following or preceding vowel-sound ; but it is by no means... | |
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