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Jje ( Sindhi :ڄي jjē , Punjabi , Saraiki :ڄے jjē ;ڄ) is the twelfth letter of the Sindhi extended Arabic alphabet . The same symbol is also used in the Shahmukhi script of the Punjabi and Saraiki and in the Arebica of the Bosnian language . Jye consists of a jim (ج) with a second diacritical point below that of the jim.
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ـڄ
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ـڄـ
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ڄـ
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ڄ
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In the Arabic script of Sindhi Jje represents the voiced palatal implosive [ ʄ ] . The equivalent of the jje in the Devanagari of Sindhi is the signज॒, In Latin transcriptions, Jje is represented either as jj , ǰ or ̈j . In an older variant of the Arabic alphabet of Sindhi, the same sound was made by the signڃ reproduced; ڄat that time stood for the aspirated voiced postalveolar affricate [ d͡ʒʰ ], a sound that is now used with the digraph جھ is written.
In Shahmukhi, Jje represents the same sound as ੱਜ in Gurmukhi , thatڄin Bosnia Arebica corresponds to the c of the Latin alphabet and is used as unvoiced alveolar affricate [ TS ] pronounced.
The character is coded as Dyeh in the Arabic unicode block at code point U + 0684 and in the Arabic unicode block A at code points U + FB72 to U + FB75.
Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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U + 0684 | ARABIC LETTER DYEH | ڄ |
U + FB72 | ARABIC LETTER DYEH ISOLATED FORM | ﭲ |
U + FB73 | ARABIC LETTER DYEH FINAL FORM | ﭳ |
U + FB74 | ARABIC LETTER DYEH INITIAL FORM | ﭴ |
U + FB75 | ARABIC LETTER DYEH MEDIAL FORM | ﭵ |
literature
- Ernest Trumpp : Grammar of the Sindhi Language . Asian Educational Services, 1986, ISBN 81-206-0100-9
Web links
- The Sindhi Alphabet , unics.uni-hannover.de
- Transliteration of Sindhi (PDF; 327 kB), transliteration.eki.ee
- Serbo-Croatian Alphabets , omniglot.com
- Siraiki alphabet . omniglot.com
- The Western Punjabi Alphabet