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Nūn ġuṇnā

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Nūn ġunnā, (Urdu: نُون غُنَّہ; Unicode: U+06BA ں ARABIC LETTER NOON GHUNNA) is an additional letter of the Arabic script not used in the Arabic alphabet itself but used in Urdu, Saraiki, and Shahmukhi Punjabi[1] to represent a nasal vowel, [◌̃]. In Shahmukhi, it is represented by the diacritic ٘◌.

It is a nasal vowel used in many Indo-Aryan languages and Iranian languages. It is represented by the International Phonetic Alphabet by the sound of ⟨◌̃⟩. It is a dotless noon. In Saraiki and Balti, nūn ġunnā is sometimes written as ن٘.

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Forms

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Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
(Help) 		ں‎ ـں‎ ـںـ‎ ںـ‎
Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
(Help) 		ن٘‎ ـن٘‎ ـن٘ـ‎ ن٘ـ‎

Languages

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The following languages use nūn ġunnā:

  1. Urdu
  2. Punjabi
  3. Kashmiri
  4. Pashto
  5. Balochi
  6. Khowar
  7. Brahui
  8. Torwali
  9. Palula
  10. Burushaski
  11. Kalkoti
  12. Shina
  13. Indus Kohistani
  14. Ormuri
  15. Marwari
  16. Hindko
  17. Pahari-Pothwari
  18. Dogri
  19. Wanetsi
  20. Gawar-Bati
  21. Kurdish
  22. Shekhani
  23. Kalami
  24. Gujari
  25. Dameli
  26. Ushojo

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The Ghunna with the letters Noon and Meen". 15 March 2021.


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