Kaf (Sindhi letter)
Kaf ( Sindhi :ڪاف kāf ;ڪ) is the 38th letter of the Sindhi extended Arabic alphabet . The shape of the kaf corresponds to a slightly modified Persian kaf (ک; im Sindhi Khe ).
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ـڪ
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ـڪـ
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ڪـ
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ڪ
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| final | medial | initial | isolated |
In the Arabic script of Sindhi Kaf represents the voiceless velar plosive [ k ] ; the cows (ک) is its aspirated counterpart. The equivalent of Kaf in the Sindhi Devanagari is the symbol क , in Latin transcriptions Kaf is usually represented with k . Before it was introduced as a separate letterڪan allograph of the set in certain casesک.
The character is encoded in the Unicode block Arabic at code point U + 06AA.
| Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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| U + 06AA | ARABIC LETTER SWASH KAF | ڪ |
Web links
- The Sindhi Alphabet , unics.uni-hannover.de
- Transliteration of Sindhi (PDF; 327 kB), transliteration.eki.ee
literature
- Ernest Trumpp : Grammar of the Sindhi Language . Asian Educational Services, 1986. ISBN 9788120601000