Ve (Arabic letter)

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South African text from 1872 by Abu Bakr Effendi in Arabic Afrikaans (upper) and Arabic (lower) showing The ڤ in the word ڤوت (vote) used in Arabic even though the Modern Standard Arabic word for (vote) is صوت .

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the Greek surname Cavafis in Egypt written كڤافيس.

Ve () is a letter of the Arabic-based Comoro, Kurdish, Luri, Swahili, and Wakhi alphabets. It is derived from the Arabic letter () with two additional dots. It represents the sound Template:IPAslink in the aforementioned uses. On the other hand, the letter Pa () represents the sound Template:IPAslink in the Jawi (used for Malay) and Pegon (used for Javanese) alphabets.

Ve originated as one of the new letters added for the Perso-Arabic alphabet to write New Persian, and it was used for the sound Template:IPAslink. This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the Template:IPAblink-sound changed to Template:IPAblink, e.g. archaic > 'language'

The letter ve is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme Template:IPAslink, such as (Volvo), (Vietnam), (November) and viyenna (Vienna), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called (, "Fa' with three dots").

The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A5. In Tunisia and Algeria the variant () Template:IPAslink with three dots below is used instead to differentiate it from the letter () Template:IPAslink. This usage might have been influenced by the Maghrebi archaic variant of () with a dot below.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

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Tunisian cookie packaging, showing a three-dotted Qāf used to represent Template:IPAslink in the Arabic transliteration of Galletes (gālāt).

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An Algerian sign transcribing Greenwich as Template:Script/Arabic (grīnish).

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Glyph form: (Help)	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic	Template:Script/Arabic

In Tunisian and in Algerian, (, looks similar to but with three dots) is used for Template:IPAslink, such as in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Gafsa (in Tunisia) or Guelma (in Algeria). If the usage of that letter is not possible for technical restrictions, qāf () is often used instead.

In Arabic script representations of the Chechen language, Template:Script/Arabic is used to represent the uvular ejective Template:IPAslink, and Template:IPAslink in Hindko language, in Pakistan, called vaf.

See also

• ﭖ - Pe
• ﭺ - Che
• گ - Gaf
• ژ - Zhe
• ۋ - Ve

References

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