Re: Arabic based alphabets

[N.R.Liwal]

Letter Zeem (dze) is now accepted "heh with Hamaza above".   Liwal ----- Original Message ----- From: Vladimir Ivanov To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:25 AM Subject: Arabic based alphabets Vladimir Ivanov wrote:   >Letter "dze" is represented in Unicode by U+0681 "Arabic letter heh with >hamza above", >though the sign above heh is not exactly hamza.   John Hudson wrote:   > Does Pashto also make use of the regular hamza sign in other contexts?   Yes, for instance in Arabic loan words like "shu'Un". If Mr. Vladimir is refering to Hamza ( U+0621), use in Pashto then common Arabic word in Pashto with hamza will be "Ibtida" = intially.   Liwal