ݨ Explained

ݨ, (Arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768), ṇūṇ), is an additional letter of the Arabic script,[1] not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Saraiki, Shina and Shahmukhi Punjabi to represent a retroflex nasal consonant, pronounced as /link/.ڼ is the twenty-ninth letter of Pashto alphabet. It represents the retroflex nasal letter (IPA: [ɳ]) or Ṇ in Latin Alphabets, which is in Devanagari and in Gurmukhi.[2] In Sindhi, Sindhi: ڻ is used.

The Unicode for Saraiki letter ݨ was approved in 2005.[3] Saraiki (and rarely in Shahmukhi Punjabi) uses the letter ⟨ݨ⟩ for pronounced as /link/. Previously, ڑن was used to represent a voiced retroflex nasal.

It is a compound of nūn and ṛe ⟨ڑ⟩, for example:

Nastaliq

The only Nastaliq font that supports the alphabet is "Mehr Nastaliq Saraiki".[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ݨ arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768) @ Graphemica . 2022-10-26 . graphemica.com.
  2. Razai Che Pukhto Walwalu (Pashto book)
  3. Web site: Unicode Character 'Arabic Letter Dal With Two Dots Vertically Below and Small Tah' (U+0759).
  4. Download Link for Mehr Nastaliq Saraiki