Ve (Arabic letter)
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 in the aforementioned uses. On the other hand, the letter Pa represents the sound in the Jawi and Pegon 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. This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the -sound changed to, e.g. archaic زڤان > زبان 'language'
The letter ve is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme, such as ڤولڤو, ڤيتنام, نوڤمبر and ڤيينا viyenna, but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called '.
The character ڤ is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.
The character ڥ is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A5. In Tunisia and Algeria the variant with three dots below is used instead to differentiate it from the letter . This usage might have been influenced by the Maghrebi archaic variant of ' with a dot below.
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In Tunisian and in Algerian, is used for, such as in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Gafsa or Guelma. 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, is used to represent the uvular ejective, and in Hindko language, in Pakistan, called vaf.