On the other hand, it is considered a native phoneme or allophone in most modern Arabic dialects, mostly as a variant of /q/ (as in Arabian Peninsula and Northwest African dialects) or as a variant of /d͡ʒ/ (as in Egyptian and a number of Yemeni and Omani dialects). It is also considered a separate foreign phoneme that appears only in loanwords, as in most urban Levantine dialects where is /ʔ/ and is /d͡ʒ~ʒ/.