Additional letter of the Arabic script
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.
Position in word
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Isolated
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Final
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Medial
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ں
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ـں
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ـںـ
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ںـ
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Isolated
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Final
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Medial
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Initial
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ن٘
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ـن٘
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ـن٘ـ
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ن٘ـ
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Languages
The following languages use nūn ġunnā:
- Urdu
- Punjabi
- Kashmiri
- Pashto
- Balochi
- Khowar
- Brahui
- Torwali
- Palula
- Burushaski
- Kalkoti
- Shina
- Indus Kohistani
- Ormuri
- Marwari
- Hindko
- Pahari-Pothwari
- Dogri
- Wanetsi
- Gawar-Bati
- Kurdish
- Shekhani
- Kalami
- Gujari
- Dameli
- Ushojo
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