A Hundred and One Rules in Arabic Grammar!

  1. Emphatic Consonants ======================

Emphatic Consonants are a Semitic languages phenomenon. In Arabic there are four which includeص ، ط ، ظ ** ** ** ض ،** . These consonants are articulated by a process of velarization: the tip of the tongue is lowered, the root of the tongue is raised towards the soft palate (velum), and in the process the timbre of the neighboring vowels is shifted towards a posterior realization.