Nge (Sindhi letter)

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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.

Forms of the Nge
ـڱ
ـڱـ
ـﮜ
ڱ
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
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

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