| Main sound category: | Fricatives |
| Sound category: | voiced pharyngeal fricative |
| IPA symbol: | ʕ |
| IPA description: | voiced pharyngeal fricative |
| UPSID symbol: | 9 |
| UPSID description: | voiced pharyngeal fricative |
| Occurs in | 11 languages |
| That is in | 2.24% of all languages |
| Occurs in: | Arabic Arabic_Modern Standard Arabic Archi Dahalo Ewe Kabardian Kurdish Shilha Socotri Somali Tigre |