Dze (Pashtun letter)
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ـځ | ـځـ | ځـ |
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Dze ( Pashtun ځې cē ), sometimes also Dzay , Dzim or Zim (ځيم cīm ) is a letter of the extended Arabic alphabet of the Pashtun language . It was derived from the Arabic letter Ḥa (ح) is derived from an attached Hamza symbol and occurs exclusively in the Pashtun script .
Its sound value in Pashtun is usually a voiced alveolar affricate ( IPA : [dz] ). The pronunciation, however, is strongly dependent on the dialect and in the north of the Pashtun language area tends towards a voiced alveolar fricative (IPA: [z] ).
The letter has only been part of the Pashtun alphabet since the spelling reform in Afghanistan in 1936. Until then, both voiced and unvoiced alveolar affricates were represented in Pashtun by the same character, the letter Tse .
Unicode codepoint | U + 0681 |
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Unicode name | Hah with hamza above |
HTML | & # 1665; |