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Že
Že or Zhe (), used to represent the phoneme , is a letter in the Persian alphabet, based on '' '' () with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that the Persian alphabet adds to the original Arabic script, others being , and , in addition the obsolete . In name and shape, it is a variant of '' ze''. Its numerical value is 4000 (see Abjad numerals). It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Pashto, Kurdish, other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Ottoman Turkish (''j'' in the modern Turkish alphabet), Azerbaijani and Urdu, but not in Arabic. In Kashmiri, this letter is called "tse" and represents the phoneme ͡s In most of the Levant and Northwestern Africa, the letter is used for . In Moroccan Arabic, the letter ژ is sometimes used to represent emphatic Z, such as in the word meaning "children", as opposed to the normal ز, in order to differentiate between words that would look similar (for example meaning "forcing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zayin
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''zayn'' 𐤆, Hebrew ''zayīn'' , Aramaic ''zain'' 𐡆, Syriac ''zayn'' ܙ, and Arabic ''zāy'' . It represents the sound . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪘, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek zeta (Ζ), Etruscan ''z'' , Latin Z, and Cyrillic Ze З, as well as Ж. Origin The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called , may not have been based on a hieroglyph, and may have depicted a " fetter". An alternative view is that it is based on the " copper ingot" hieroglyph ( 𓈔) in the form of an axeblade, after noting that the name "zayin" has roots in Aramaic to refer to "Arms," "Armor," and " Metal used for arms."Cross, F. M. (1980) Newly Found Inscriptions in Old Canaanite and Early Phoenician Scripts. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che (Persian Letter)
Che or cheem () is a letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent , and which derives from () by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is based on the ''jim'' . It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Uyghur, Kashmiri, Azerbaijani, Ottoman Turkish, Malay ( Jawi), Javanese ( Pegon), and other Indo-Iranian languages. It is also one of the five letters the Persian alphabet added to the Arabic script (the others being , , and in addition to the obsolete ). In name and shape, it is a variant of '' jim''. Its numerical value is 3000 (see Abjad numerals). When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ג׳ ''gimel'' and a ''geresh''. In Arabic The letter can be used to transcribe in Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic dialects, where they have that sound natively as in "" (dog) instead of "" . Since the sound is not part of Standard Arabic’s phonology; In most of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
𐤆
Zayin (also spelled zain or zayn or simply zay) is the seventh letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ''zayn'' 𐤆, Hebrew ''zayīn'' , Aramaic ''zain'' 𐡆, Syriac ''zayn'' ܙ, and Arabic ''zāy'' . It represents the sound . It is also related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪘, South Arabian , and Ge'ez . The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek Zeta (letter), zeta (Ζ), Etruscan alphabet, Etruscan ''z'' , Latin alphabet, Latin Z, and Cyrillic script, Cyrillic Ze (Cyrillic), Ze З, as well as Ж. Origin The Proto-Sinaitic glyph may have been called , may not have been based on a Egyptian hieroglyphs, hieroglyph, and may have depicted a "fetter". An alternative view is that it is based on the "oxhide ingot, copper ingot" hieroglyph (wikt:𓈔, 𓈔) in the form of an axeblade, after noting that the name "zayin" has roots in Aramaic to refer to "Armament, Arms," "Armor," and "oxhide ingot, Metal used for arms."Cross, F. M. (1980) Newly Found Inscript ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 widely used List of writing systems by adoption, writing system in the world by number of countries using it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese characters, Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam. With Spread of Islam, the religion's spread, it came to be used as the primary script for many language families, leading to the addition of new letters and other symbols. Such languages still using it are Arabic language, Arabic, Persian language, Persian (Western Persian, Farsi and Dari), Urdu, Uyghur language, Uyghur, Kurdish languages, Kurdish, Pashto, Punjabi language, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi language, Sindhi, South Azerbaijani, Azerb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pe (Persian Letter)
Pe () is a letter in the Persian alphabet and the Kurdish alphabet used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive ⟨p⟩. It is based on ''Bet (letter), '' () with two additional Dot (diacritic), diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that were created specifically for the Persian alphabet to symbolize sounds found in Persian but not in Standard Arabic, others being , , and , in addition the obsolete . In name and shape, it is a variant of ''bet (letter), be'' (ب). It is used in Persian language, Persian, Kurdish language, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi language, Balochi, and other Iranian languages, Uyghur language, Uyghur, Urdu, Sindhi language, Sindhi, Kashmiri language, Kashmiri, Shina language, Shina, and Turkic languages (before the Latin script, Latin and Cyrillic script, Cyrillic scripts were adopted). Its numerical value is 2000 (see Abjad numerals). It is one of additional common foreign letters that are sometimes used in some Arabic dialects to represent foreign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmiri Language
Kashmiri ( ) or Koshur (Kashmiri: , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language of the Dardic languages, Dardic branch spoken by around 7 million Kashmiris of the Kashmir region, primarily in the Kashmir Valley and surrounding hills of the Indian-administrated union territory of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir, over half the population of that territory. Kashmiri has split ergativity and the unusual V2 word order, verb-second word order. Since 2020, it has been made an official language of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir along with Dogri language, Dogri, Hindi, Urdu and English. Kashmiri is also among the 22 Languages with official status in India, scheduled languages of India. Kashmiri is spoken by roughly five percent of Pakistani-administrated Azad Kashmir's population. Geographic distribution and status There are about 6.8 million speakers of Kashmiri and related dialects in Jammu and Kashmir and amongst the Kashmir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ve (Arabic Letter)
Ve () is a letter of the Arabic-based Comoro, Kurdish, Luri, Swahili, and Wakhi alphabets. It is derived from the Arabic letter () with two additional dots. It represents the sound in the aforementioned uses. On the other hand, the letter ''Pa'' () represents the sound in the Jawi (used for Malay) and Pegon (used for Javanese) alphabets. Ve originated as one of the new letters added for the Perso-Arabic alphabet to write New Persian, and it was used for the sound . This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the -sound changed to , e.g. archaic > 'language' The letter ''ve'' is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme , such as (Volvo), (Vietnam), (November) and ''viyenna'' (Vienna), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called ' (, "Fa' with three dots"). The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4. The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A5. In Tunisia and Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abjad Numerals
The Abjad numerals, also called Hisab al-Jummal (, ), are a decimal alphabetic numeral system/alphanumeric code, in which the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet are assigned numerical values. They have been used in the Arab world, Arabic-speaking world since before the eighth century when Positional notation, positional Arabic numerals were adopted. In modern Arabic, the word ' () means 'alphabet' in general. In the Abjad system, the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, aleph#Arabic, ʾalif, is used to represent 1; the second letter, Bet (letter)#Arabic bāʾ, bāʾ, 2, up to 9. Letters then represent the first nine intervals of 10s and those of the 100s: Yodh#Arabic yāʼ, yāʾ for 10, Kaph#Arabic kāf, kāf for 20, Qoph#Arabic Qāf, qāf for 100, ending with 1000. The word ''abjad, ʾabjad'' () itself derives from the first four letters (A-B-G-D) of the Semitic alphabet, including the Aramaic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Phoenician alphabet, and other scripts for Semitic languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Arabic
Moroccan Arabic ( ), also known as Darija ( or ), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco. It is part of the Maghrebi Arabic dialect continuum and as such is mutually intelligible to some extent with Algerian Arabic and to a lesser extent with Tunisian Arabic. It is spoken by 90.9% of the population of Morocco. While Modern Standard Arabic is used to varying degrees in formal situations such as religious sermons, books, newspapers, government communications, news broadcasts and political talk shows, Moroccan Arabic is the predominant spoken language of the country and has a strong presence in Moroccan television entertainment, cinema and commercial advertising. Moroccan Arabic has many regional dialects and accents as well, with its mainstream dialect being the one used in Casablanca, Rabat, Meknes and Fez, and therefore it dominates the media and eclipses most of the other regional accents. SIL International classifies Moroccan Arabic, Has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian ( ), also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Farsi (, Fārsī ), is a Western Iranian languages, Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible standard language, standard varieties, respectively Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari, Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964), and Tajik language, Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate society, Persianate history in the cultural sphere o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Alphabet
The Persian alphabet (), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with four additional letters: (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and 'p', respectively), in addition to the obsolete that was used for the sound . This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the -sound changed to , e.g. archaic > 'language'. It was the basis of many Arabic-based scripts used in Central and South Asia. It is used for both Iranian and Dari: standard varieties of Persian; and is one of two official writing systems for the Persian language, alongside the Cyrillic-based Tajik alphabet. The script is mostly but not exclusively right-to-left; mathematical expressions, numeric dates and numbers bearing units are embedded from left to right. The script is cursive, meaning most letters in a word connect to each other; when they are typed, contemporary word processors automatically join adjacent letter f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
