Ve ( letter)

The Kurdish Ve in its medial form used in an Israeli roadsign on the road to Giv'at Shmuel as the letter vāʾ.

,is a letter of the Arabic-based Sorani alphabet ( ڤ) Ve with two additional (ﻑ) derived from the Arabic letter fāʾ dots, representing the sound /v/. It is sometimes used in Arabic as the letter vāʾ to write names and loanwords, .(viyenna (Vienna ڤيينا Volvo) and) ڤولڤو such as ./it is the letter for /p, ڤ In Jawi script The character is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A8. The Maghrebi style, used in Northwestern Africa:

1 Similar-looking letter looks similar, ڨ) ,In Tunisian and less likely in Algerian but with three dots) is used for /ɡ/, such as in names ق to 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 (ق)

2 See also

( (Arabicﭖ - •

( (Arabicﭺ - • ( (Arabicگ - •

(Zhe (Arabicژ - •

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