Gain / Nga

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The letter in isolated form
connected shapes
ـڠ
ـڠـ
ڠـ
from the right both sides to the left

The Gain or Nga ( ڠ , in a connected form ڠڠڠ ) is a special or additional character of the Arabic alphabet . It can be seen as a derivative of the Ghain (غ) understand. It has three points above the basic morpheme, which alone forms the letter ʿAin , instead of just one.

Pronunciation g ​​

In some Arabic dictionaries and atlases, it is used to denote the sound g , which does not exist in classical Arabic . In Egyptian Arabic is [⁠ g ⁠] the usual pronunciation of the letter Dschīm (ج). In Maghreb Arabic is used to represent the g -Lautes other hand, the common Grundmorphem the letter Fā' (ف) and Qāf (ق) with three points. In Persian the sound g is combined with that of the kāf (ك, Persian form ک, as at the beginning of the word) derived Gaf (گ, with double top line).

Pronunciation ŋ​​

In the Jawi -Schrift, an extended Arabic alphabet which for that Malay is used, the mark under the name Nga the voiced velar nasal ( IPA : [⁠ ŋ ⁠] , as in German Sä ng s) represent the does not appear in Arabic. Another Arabic letter with a similar sound value is the Ñef (ڭ), which occurs in the Ottoman alphabet and the alphabets of the Turkic languages derived from it .

Web links

Unicode codepoint U + 06A0
Unicode name Arabic letter ain with three dots above
HTML (decimal) & # 1696;
HTML (hexadecimal) & # x06A0;
URL encoding % DA% A0