Gueh () is an additional letter of the
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic (Arabic alphabet) and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world (after the Latin script), the second-most widel ...
,
used in
Sindhi and
Saraiki to represent a
voiced velar implosive
The voiced velar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g_<. It is familiar to English s ...
. It is derived from
gāf (), with the addition of two dots. It is equivalent to
ॻ in Saraiki and Sindhi's
Devanagari
Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...
orthography.
The letter has four forms in total.
Related characters
The letter ''ṅāf'' () is used in Sindhi to represent the velar nasal .
See also
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ٻ
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ݙ
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ڄ
References
External links
Saraiki Alphabet{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911043153/http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/western-panjabi-alphabet.html , date=2019-09-11
Arabic letters