Gaf may be the name of three different Arabic letters, all representing the sound of "g". 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: An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ... In psychiatry, GAF is an abbreviation for Global Assessment of Functioning. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and others. ... Alif ﺍ is the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. ... Bet or Beth is the second letter of the Phoenician alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, and the Aramaic alphabet. ... 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• گ in several languages
• ݢ in Malay
• ﯕ in Moroccan Arabic

Gaf with line

One form of gaf

گ is based on kāf with an additional line. It is not used in Arabic itself, but may be used to represent a voiced velar stop (IPA: /ɡ/) when writing other languages. It used in Persian ferequently and it is one of four Persian letters which are not found in Arabic. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... “Arabic” redirects here. ... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Look up Persian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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 (IPA: /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. Kaph or Kaf is the eleventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its value is IPA . ... When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct ( · ), or to the glyphs combining dot above ( ) and combining dot below ( ) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese. ... “Arabic” redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Yawi. ... Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India. ... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ...

Gaf with three dots

ﯖ is based on a variant form (ک) of kāf with the addition of three dots. It is used in informal Moroccan Arabic to represent a voiced velar stop (IPA: /ɡ/). The letter is also used officially to transliterate the voiced velar plosive as in many city names such as Agadir (أﯕادير) and family names such as El Guerrouj (الﯖروج). Kaph or Kaf is the eleventh letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet . Its value is IPA . ... When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct ( · ), or to the glyphs combining dot above ( ) and combining dot below ( ) which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese. ... Moroccan Arabic, also known as Darija, is the language spoken in the Arabic-speaking areas of Morocco, as opposed to the official communications of governmental and other public bodies which use Modern Standard Arabic, as is the case in most Arabic-speaking countries, while a mixture of French and Moroccan... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Panorama of the seaside from the kasbah Agadir (Arabic: أكادير, Berber (Amazigh): ) is a city in southwest Morocco, capital of the Souss-Massa-Dra region. ... Hicham El Guerrouj (Arabic: هشام الكروج, born September 14, 1974, Berkane) is a retired Moroccan middle distance runner. ...

Its initial and medial forms are identical to ڭ, which represents a velar nasal (IPA: /ŋ/) in some languages. However, their final and isolated forms are different. Ú­ is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, derived from kāf (Ùƒ) with the addition of three dots above the letter. ... The velar nasal is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ...

External links

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