Gaf

Persian alphabet
ﺍ    ﺏ    پ    ﺕ    ﺙ     ﺝ    چ
ﺡ    ﺥ    ﺩ    ﺫ    ﺭ    ﺯ    ژ
ﺱ    ﺵ     ﺹ    ﺽ    ﻁ    ﻅ
ﻉ    ﻍ    ﻑ    ﻕ    ک    گ
ﻝ    ﻡ    ﻥ    ﻭ    ه    ی
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Arabic alphabet
ا    ب    ت    ث    ج    ح
خ    د    ذ    ر    ز    س
ش    ص    ض    ط    ظ    ع
غ    ف    ق    ك    ل
م    ن    ه    و    ي
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Gaf or Gāf may be the name of four different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing [ɡ]. They are all forms of the letter kāf, with additional diacritics, such as dots and lines. There are three forms, each used in different places:

• گ‎ in Persian & Urdu
• ݢ‎ in Malay
• ݣ‎ in Moroccan
• ګ‎ in Pashto

Contents 1 Gaf with line 2 Gaf with single dot 3 Gaf with three dots 4 In Pashto 5 External links

Gaf with line

گ‎ is based on kāf with an additional line. It is rarely used in Arabic itself, but may be used to represent the sound [ɡ] when writing other languages. It is frequently used in Persian and Kurdish and it is one of four letters which are not found in Arabic.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	گ‎	ـگ‎	ـگـ‎	گـ‎

Gaf with single dot

ݢ‎ is derived from a variant form (ک‎) of kāf with the addition of a dot. It is not used in Arabic itself, but is used in the Jawi script of Malay to represent a voiced velar stop [ɡ]. Unicode includes two forms on this letter: one based on the standard Arabic kāf, ك‎, and one based on the variant form ک‎. The latter is the preferred form.

Appearance	Code point	Name
ڬ‎	U+06AC	ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT ABOVE
ݢ‎	U+0762	ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE	(preferred)

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	ڬ‎	ـڬ‎	ـڬـ‎	ڬـ‎

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	ݢ‎	ـݢ‎	ـݢـ‎	ݢـ‎

Gaf with three dots

ݣ ‎ is based on a variant form (ک‎) of kāf with the addition of three dots. It is used in informal Moroccan Arabic to represent /ɡ/. The letter is also used officially to transliterate the voiced velar plosive as in many city names such as Agadir (أݣادير‎, also written: أغادير‎) and family names such as El Guerrouj (الݣروج‎, also written: الكروج‎).

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	ݣ‎	ـݣ‎	ـݣـ‎	ݣـ‎

Its initial and medial forms are identical to ڭ‎, which represents [ŋ] in some languages. However, their final and isolated forms are different.

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	ڭ‎	ـڭ‎	ـڭـ‎	ڭـ‎

See also Ng (Arabic).

In Pashto

In Pashto:

Position in word:	Isolated	Final	Medial	Initial
Form of letter:	ګ‎	ـګ‎	ـګـ‎	ګـ‎

External links

• Notes on some Unicode Arabic characters: recommendations for usage (PDF)