Tte (Pashtun letter)
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ـټ | ـټـ | ټـ |
from the right | both sides | to the left |
Tte ( Pashtun ټې t́ē ) is an Arabic letter that is part of the extended Arabic alphabet of the Pashtun language . It is derived from the Arabic letter Ta (ت) by adding a small circle called a pandak .
The sound value in Pashto is a voiceless retroflexer plosive ( IPA : [ʈ] ). The Tte belongs next to Ddal (ډ) , Rre (ړ) and only (ڼ) to the letters of the Pashto script representing the retroflexed sounds . These phonemes do not appear in Arabic , so the letters were added to the original Arabic alphabet. Apart from the retroflex nasal, these phonemes also exist in a related form in Urdu , which also uses a modified Arabic script. There, however , the retroflex articulation site is not indicated by the pandak, but by a superscript small Ṭa (ط) is displayed.
Unicode codepoint | U + 067C |
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Unicode name | Arabic letter ta with ring |
HTML | & # 1660; |