B̤ē () is an additional letter of the
Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it or a script directly derived from it, and the ...
, derived from
bāʼ () with an additional
dot. It is not used in the
Arabic alphabet itself, but is used to represent the sound when writing
Hausa,
Saraiki, and
Sindhi in the Arabic script. The same sound may also be written simply as bāʾ in Hausa, undifferentiated from .
Both Hausa and Sindhi are also written in scripts besides Arabic. The sound represented by b̤ē is written
Ɓ ɓ in Hausa's
Latin orthography, and written in Saraiki and Sindhi's
Devanagari orthography.
See also
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ڄ
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ݙ
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ڳ
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ݨ
External links
Saraiki Omniglot
Arabic letters
Urdu letters
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