Arabic is not Aramaic. Please correct your sources.
I’m also quite curious about the sounds of “ch” and “zh” which exist in Arabic as ش and ج, or did you mean something else?
I’m also quite curious about the sounds of “ch” and “zh” which exist in Arabic as ش and ج, or did you mean something else?
"zh" is written as "ژ" in Persian (sounds like bourgeoisie in French).
In Arabic[1], there are two close phonemes: `/dʒ/` for `ج` and `/ʃ/` for `ش`
The difference in both phonemes is minimal and are practically affricates[2] of each other (where `d` or `t` can precede a `ʒ` or a `ʃ`), so it seems these sounds are present in both Arabic and Persian.
These variations are also within the dialectal distribution of either languages. For example `ج` is pronounced `/dʒ/` in Algeria and `/ʒ/` in Morocco.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Persian