Aramaic Letters: Dalat

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The next letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Dalat, pronounced DA-lat. It corresponds to the Hebrew letter Dalet in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letters in the Aramaic Alphabet are almost identical to those in Hebrew, but have slightly different names and sometimes slightly different sounds.

  Aramaic audio: Listen to the sound of Dalat.

Here is what the Aramaic letter Dalat looks like:

Here is how to write Dalat:



 
Like a number of other Aramaic letters, Dalat used to have two pronunciations, depending on whether or not it had a dot inside it. But today, it is always pronounced with a d sound, like the words David, day or dog.

Here is what Dalat looks like with and without the dot:

  with the dot, pronounced d

   without the dot, pronounced d

Dalat is the fourth letter of the Aramaic Alphabet, and therefore has the Gematria (numerical value) of 4.

Practise writing Dalat in the grid lines below:









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