ݨ

ݨ, (Arabic letter noon with small tah (U+0768)), 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 consonantat, [ɳ]. ڼ is the twenty-ninth letter of Pashto alphabet,Its represent the Velar nasal letter (IPA: [ɳ] ) or Ṇ in Latin Alphabets, which is ण in Devanagari and ਣ in Gurmukhi.[2]

It is a retroflex nasal consonantal sound symbol, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɳ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is n`. Like all the retroflex consonants, the IPA symbol is formed by adding a rightward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of an en (the letter used for the corresponding alveolar consonant). It is similar to ⟨ɲ⟩, the letter for the palatal nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the left stem, and to ⟨ŋ⟩, the letter for the velar nasal, which has a leftward-pointing hook extending from the bottom of the right stem. The unicode for saraiki letter ݨ was approved in 2005.[3] Saraiki (and rarely in Shahmukhi Punjabi) uses the letter ⟨ݨ⟩ for /ɳ/. Previously, نڑ was used to represent a Voiced retroflex nasal.

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

کݨ مݨ، چھݨ چھݨ، ونڄݨ۔

Forms

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	ݨ‎	ـݨ‎	ـݨـ‎	ݨـ‎

See also

• ٻ
• ڄ
• ݙ
• ڳ

References

1. http://graphemica.com/%DD%A8
2. RAZAI CHE PUKHTO WALWALU (Pashto book)
3. https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0759/index.htm

External links

• Saraiki Omniglot
• Saraiki Alphabet