Zze
Zze ( Pashto :ږې ẓ̌e , also ge ;ږ) is a letter of the Pashtun alphabet . Zze consists of a Ra (ر) with a point next to and below.
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ـږ
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ږ
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final | isolated |
The pronunciation of the Zze is like that of the Ssin (ښ) Strongly depends dialect: it ranges from voiced postalveolar fricative [ ʂ ] in southeastern dialects over the voiced retroflex fricative [ ʐ ] in southwestern and a palatal realization in northwestern dialects until Velar in northeastern dialects.
The character is encoded in the Unicode block Arabic at code point U + 0696.
Unicode - Codepoint | Unicode name | character |
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U + 0696 | ARABIC LETTER REH WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE | ږ |
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