Ve (Arabic letter)

Ve () is a letter of the Arabic-based Comoro, Kurdish, Luri, Swahili, Wakhi and Malay 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 (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 . This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the -sound changed to , e.g. archaic > 'language'

The letter Ve is sometimes used in various Arabic dialects to write names and loanwords with the phoneme , such as Volvo (),Vietnam (), November () and Vienna (), but rather described, for example, in Egyptian Arabic, it is called Fāʾ with three dots ().

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

Ve (ڥ)

The character Ve () 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.

Gāf (ڨ) In Tunisian and in Algerian, Gāf (), similar look to Qāf () but with three dots, 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, Gāf () is used to represent the uvular ejective , and in Hindko language (within Pakistan), called Vāf.

Ve (Arabic letter)

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