Arabic

العربية — notes.
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ع (ʕ) and ح (ħ) — voiced and voiceless pharyngeal fricatives. Easy to confuse on hearing. English speakers tend to flatten both into a hint of h, or drop them.

ثلاثة — three. Two θ's framing the word.

ج ح خ share the same skeleton: a curve below the line. The dot above — or its absence, or its position — tells which is which.