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.

Forms

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

The following languages use nūn ġunnā:

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

See also

References

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