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Gueh

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Saraiki alphabet
آ ا ب ٻ پ ت ٹ ث ج ڄ چ ح خ د ڈ ݙ ذ ر ڑ ز ژ س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ک گ ڳ ل م ن (ں) ݨ و ہ ھ ی ے
Extended Perso-Arabic script
Sindhi alphabet
ا ب ٻ ڀ پ ت ٿ ٽ ٺ ث ج ڄ جهہ ڃ چ ڇ ح خ د ڌ ڏ ڊ ڍ ذ ر ڙ ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ڦ ق ڪ ک گ ڳ گهہ ڱ ل م ن ڻ و ھ ء ي
Extended Perso-Arabic script

Gueh (ڳ‎) is an additional letter of the Arabic script,[1] used in Sindhi and Saraiki to represent a voiced velar implosive /ɠ/.[2] It is derived from gāf (گ‎‎), with the addition of two dots. It is equivalent to ॻ in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography.

The letter has four forms in total.

Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
(Help) 		ڳ‎ ـڳ‎ ـڳـ‎ ڳـ‎

The letter ṅāf (ڱ‎‎) is used in Sindhi to represent the velar nasal /ŋ/.

See also

References

  1. ^ "ڳ | arabic letter gueh (U+06B3) @ Graphemica". graphemica.com.
  2. ^ "ڳ - Arabic Letter Gueh (U+06B3) symbol, character, sign, icon, html: ڳ - Arabic - Unicode® character table". Unicode-table.com. Retrieved 2017-04-05.
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