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The consonants of Arabic are divided into emphatic (velarised or pharyngealised); the vowel "a" can be realised as IPA ɒ (i.e. a cross between a and o) when occurring next to an emphatic consonant; the "l" in Allah is geminated and emphatic (something like the l in RP full), though Arabic doesn't have a special letter for the emphatic "l" as ...