Arabic Script - Special Letters

Special Letters

• ڤ‎ and/or ۋ‎ – Ve, used in Kurdish language when written in Arabic script to represent the sound /v/. Also used as pa in the Jawi script.
• پ – Pe, used to represent the phoneme /p/ in Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish.
• چ – Che, used to represent /t͡ʃ/ ("ch"). It is used in Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish.
  • Ca in the Jawi script
• ژ – Že/zhe, used to represent the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ in, Persian, Kurdish, Urdu and Uyghur.
• ڭ‎ – Ng, used to represent the phone in Ottoman Turkish, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur.
• ݙ‎ – used in Saraiki to represent a voiced retroflex implosive .
• ݐ‎ – used to represent the equivalent of the Latin letter Ƴ (palatalized glottal stop ) in some African languages such as Fulfulde.
• ݫ‎ – used in Ormuri to represent a voiced alveolo-palatal fricative, as well as in Torwali.
• ݭ‎ – used in Kalami to represent a voiceless retroflex fricative, and in Ormuri to represent a voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative.
• ݜ‎ – used in Shina to represent a voiceless retroflex fricative .
• ݪ‎ – used in Marwari to represent a retroflex lateral flap, and in Kalami to represent a voiceless lateral fricative .
• ٻ‎ – B̤ē, used to represent a voiced bilabial implosive in Hausa, Sindhi and Saraiki.
• ٺ‎ – Ṭhē, represents the aspirated voiceless retroflex plosive in Sindhi.
• ﮎ‎ – Khē, represents in Sindhi.
• ﭦ‎ – Ṭe, used to represent Ṭ (a voiceless retroflex plosive ) in Urdu.
• ڳ‎ – represents a voiced velar implosive /ɠ/ in Sindhi and Saraiki
• ڱ‎ – represents the Velar nasal /ŋ/ phoneme in Sindhi.
• ڻ‎ – represents the retroflex nasal /ɳ/ phoneme in Sindhi.
• ݨ‎ – used in Saraiki.
• ڀ‎ – represents an aspirated voiced bilabial plosive in Sindhi.
• ھ – Hāʾ do chahmsi, represents a aspirated consonant in Urdu.
• ڑ‎ – Aṛ, represents a retroflex flap in Urdu.
• ڕ‎ – used in Kurdish to represent rr in Yekgirtú spelling.
• گ – Gaf, represents a voiced velar plosive in Persian, Urdu, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Kurdish, Uyghur, and Ottoman Turkish.
• ݢ‎ or ڬ‎ – Gaf, represents a voiced velar plosive in the Jawi script of Malay.
• ے‎ – Bari ye, represents "ai" or "e" in Urdu and Punjabi.
• ێ‎ – represents Ê or É in Kurdish.
• ۆ‎ – represents O in Kurdish, and in Uyghur it represents the sound similar to the French eu andœu sound
• ۋ‎ – represents a voiced labiodental fricative in Kyrgyz, Uyghur, and Old Tatar; and /w, ʊw, ʉw/ in Kazakh; also formerly used in Nogai.
• ڽ‎ – Nya in the Jawi script.
• ڠ‎ – Nga in the Jawi script.
• ۏ‎ – Va in the Jawi script.
• ڈ‎ – Ḍ in Urdu.