ݙ

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ݙ is an additional letter of the Arabic script, not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki to represent a voiced alveolar implosive, [ɗ]. Its other form is also found in Saraiki Spoken in Jhang in the form of voiced retroflex implosive, [].

It is written as in Saraiki and Sindhi's Devanagari orthography. It is derived from dāl (د), with a small ṭāʼ (ط) above to represent retroflexion (as in Urdu), and two dots below to represent implosion (as in Sindhi). The unicode for saraiki letter ݙ was approved in 2005.[1]

Forms

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The letter ݙ has 2 forms.

Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
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ݙ ـݙ ـݙ ݙ

This glyph may not rendered or joined on custom fonts because it is in the Arabic Supplement block and not in the Arabic block. It may also not be rendered on Apple devices because Apple is using various fonts to render Arabic text. For other uses, see Help:Arabic.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Unicode Character 'ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW AND SMALL TAH' (U+0759)". www.fileformat.info.
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