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

Languages

The following languages use nūn ġunnā:

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

See also

• ݨ
• ڑ
• ن
• ٹ
• ھ
• ڻ

External links

• Saraiki language, alphabet and pronunciation
• Urdu alphabet, pronunciation and language
• Pashto language and alphabet
• Punjabi language, alphabets and pronunciation
• Urdu: فلاں ، عریاں written/pronounced with ں instead of ن

References