Pe (Persian)
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Pe is a letter in the Perso-Arabic alphabet used for p.
It is used in Persian
and Kurdish
and other Iranian languages
, Urdu
, Sindhi
and Turkic languages (before adoption of Latin/Cyrillic script) but not in Arabic
, where it is usually substituted by the letter bāʼ . But pe is sometimes used in Arabic for the transliteration of foreign words.
It is used in Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
and Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
and other Iranian languages
Iranian languages
The Iranian languages form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages which in turn is a subgroup of Indo-European language family. They have been and are spoken by Iranian peoples....
, Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
, Sindhi
Sindhi language
Sindhi is the language of the Sindh region of Pakistan that is spoken by the Sindhi people. In India, it is among 22 constitutionally recognized languages, where Sindhis are a sizeable minority. It is spoken by 53,410,910 people in Pakistan, according to the national government's Statistics Division...
and Turkic languages (before adoption of Latin/Cyrillic script) but not in Arabic
Arabic language
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
, where it is usually substituted by the letter bāʼ . But pe is sometimes used in Arabic for the transliteration of foreign words.
See also
- ﭺ - Che (Arabic)Che (Arabic)Che is an additional letter of the Persian alphabet, used to represent , and which derives from by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Persian and other Iranian languages but not in Arabic...
- ﭪ - Ve (Arabic)Ve (Arabic)Ve is an additional letter of the Arabic letters, derived from with two additional dots, representing the sound . It is sometimes used in Arabic to write names and loanwords, such as and viyenna...
- گ - Gaf (Arabic)GafGaf or Gāf may be the name of four different Perso-Arabic letters, all representing . 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:* in Persian & Urdu...
- ژ - Zhe /ʒ/ (Arabic)