Ssin
Ssin ( Pashto :ښين śin , also xe , shin ;ښ) is a letter of the Pashtun alphabet . Ssin consists of a Sin (س) with a point above and below.
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ـښ
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ـښـ
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ښـ
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ښ
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| final | medial | initial | isolated |
The pronunciation of the Ssin is like that of the Zze (ږ) Strongly dialect dependent: it ranges from the voiceless postalveolar fricative [ ʃ ] in southeastern dialects over the voiceless retroflex fricative [ ʂ ] in southwestern and the voiceless palatal fricative [ ç ] in northwestern dialects to the voiceless velar fricative [ x ] in northeastern dialects.
The character is encoded in the Arabic Unicode block at code point U + 069A.
| Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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| U + 069A | ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE | ښ |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael MT Henderson: Four Varieties of Pashto . In: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 3, 1983, p. 595; Daniel G. Hallberg: Pashto, Waneci, Ormuri . In: O'Leary, CF (Ed.): Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern, Vol. 4, Islamabad 1992, pp. 10f
Web links
- The Pashto Alphabet , unics.uni-hannover.de