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Nūn ġuṇnā

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Nūn ġunnā, (Urdu: نُون غُنَّہ; Unicode: U+06BA ں ARABIC LETTER NOON GHUNNA) is an additional letter of the Arabic script not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Urdu, Saraiki, and Shahmukhi Punjabi^[1] to represent a nasal vowel, [◌̃]. In Shahmukhi, it is represented by the diacritic ٘◌.

It is a nasal vowel used in many Indo-Aryan languages and Iranian languages. It is represented by the International Phonetic Alphabet by the sound of ⟨◌̃⟩. It is a dotless noon. In Saraiki and Balti, nūn ġunnā is sometimes written as ن٘.

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Forms

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ں‎	ـں‎	ـںـ‎	ںـ‎

Position in word	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ن٘‎	ـن٘‎	ـن٘ـ‎	ن٘ـ‎

Languages

The following languages use nūn ġunnā:

See also

ݨ
ڑ
ن
ٹ
ھ
ڻ

External links

References

^ "The Ghunna with the letters Noon and Meen". March 15, 2021.

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