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.

Forms of the Zze
ـږ	ږ
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
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

[1] 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