South African text from 1872 by Abu Bakr Effendi in Arabic Afrikaans (upper) and Arabic (lower) showing The ڤ in the word ڤوت (vote) used in Arabic even though the Modern Standard Arabic word for (vote) is صوت /sˤawt/.the Greek surname Cavafis in Egypt written كڤافيس.
ڤ is a letter of the Arabic-based Afrikaans, Comorian, Jawi, Kurdish, Pegon, and Wakhi scripts. It is derived from the Arabic letterfāʾ (ف) with two additional dots. It represents the sound /v/ and named Ve in the Kurdish, Comorian and Wakhi alphabets, and represents the sound /p/ and named Pa 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 /β/. This letter is no longer used in Persian, as the [β]-sound changed to [b], e.g. archaic زڤان/zaβɑn/ > زبان/zæbɒn/ 'language'[1]
The letter is sometimes used optionally in Arabic to write foreign proper nouns and loanwords with the phoneme /v/ instead of using the standard letter ف/f/, such as ڤولڤو (Volvo), ڤيتنام (Vietnam), and نوڤمبر (November) instead of the standard transcribe فولفو, فيتنام, and نوفمبر. In Egyptian Arabic, it is called فه بتلات نقط (fe be talat noʾaṭ, "Fa' with three dots"). The letter is written ڥ in Algeria and Tunisia, with the dots moved underneath to differentiate it from gāfڨ.
The character ڤ is mapped in Unicode under position U+06A4.
Tunisian cookie packaging, showing a three-dotted Qāf used to represent /g/ in the Arabic transliteration of Galletes (gālāt).An Algerian sign transcribing Greenwich as ڨرينش (grīnish).
In Tunisian and in Algerian, (ڨ, looks similar to ق but with three dots) is used for /ɡ/, such as in names of places or persons containing a voiced velar stop, as in Gafsa (in Tunisia) or Guelma (in Algeria). If the usage of that letter is not possible for technical restrictions, qāf (ق) is often used instead.
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