ݨ
{{Short description|Additional letter of the Arabic script}}
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{{Arabic-script sidebar|Punjabi}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Saraiki}}{{Arabic-script sidebar|Shina}}ݨ, (Arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768), ṇūṇ), is an additional letter of the Arabic script,{{Cite web |title=ݨ {{!}} arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768) @ Graphemica |url=https://graphemica.com/%DD%A8 |access-date=2022-10-26 |website=graphemica.com}} not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Shahmukhi Punjabi, and Shina to represent a retroflex nasal consonant, {{IPAblink|ɳ}}.
ڼ is the twenty-ninth letter of Pashto alphabet. It represents the retroflex nasal letter (IPA: [ɳ]) or Ṇ in Latin Alphabets, which is ण in Devanagari and ਣ in Gurmukhi.Razai Che Pukhto Walwalu (Pashto book) In Sindhi, {{lang|sd|ڻ}} is used.
File:Arnoon in Mehr Nastaliq Saraiki font.png
The Unicode for the letter ݨ was approved in 2005 and is used since version 4.1.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0768/index.htm|title=Unicode Character 'Arabic Letter Dal With Two Dots Vertically Below and Small Tah' (U+0759)}}
Shahmukhi uses the letter ⟨ݨ⟩ for {{IPAslink|ɳ}}. Previously, {{lang|pnb|ڑن}} was used to represent a voiced retroflex nasal.
It is a compound of nūn and ṛe ⟨ڑ⟩, for example:
:{{nq|کݨ مݨ، چھݨ چھݨ۔}}
Forms
{{Arabic alphabet shapes|ݨ}}
Nastaliq
Along with Naskh, this letter is also supported in the Nastaliq font.[https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar?preview.text=%DD%A8 Google fonts - Gulzar]
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.omniglot.com/writing/shina.htm Shina Omniglot]
- [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/saraiki.htm Saraiki Omniglot]
- [http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/western-panjabi-alphabet.html Punjabi and Siraiki Alphabet]
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