Nge (Sindhi letter)
Nge ( Sindhi :ڱي ngē or ŋē ;ڱ) is the 42nd letter of the Sindhi extended Arabic alphabet . Nge consists of a Persian gaf (گ) with two diacritical points placed next to each other above the symbol.
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ـڱ
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ـڱـ
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ـﮜ
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ڱ
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final | medial | initial | isolated |
In the Arabic script of Sindhi Nge represents the voiced velar nasal [ ŋ ] . In the Sindhi Devanagari, the equivalent of Nge is the character ङ , in Latin transcriptions Nge is represented either as ng , ṇ , ŋ or ṅ . In an earlier variant of the Arabic alphabet of Sindhi, the digraph was used instead of the ngeنک in use.
The character is coded as Ngoeh in the Arabic unicode block at code point U + 06B3 and in the Arabic form of presentation-A unicode block at code points U + FB9A to U + FB9D.
Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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U + 06B1 | ARABIC LETTER NGOEH | ڱ |
U + FB9A | ARABIC LETTER NGOEH ISOLATED FORM | ﮚ |
U + FB9B | ARABIC LETTER NGOEH FINAL FORM | ﮛ |
U + FB9C | ARABIC LETTER NGOEH INITIAL FORM | ﮜ |
U + FB9D | ARABIC LETTER NGOEH MEDIAL FORM | ﮝ |
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 81-206-0100-9 .