RE: Farsi Keheh +06A9 vs. Arabic Kaf +0643 ??

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 07:32:36 EST

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Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
> Lainaus Marco Cimarosti <marco.cimarosti@essetre.it>:
> >
> > These made me wonder about a couple of Unicode disunifications:
> >
> > - U+0643 (ARABIC LETTER KAF) vs. U+06A9 (ARABIC LETTER
> KEHEH) vs. U+06AA
> > (ARABIC LETTER SWASH KAF);
>
> "Keheh" vs. "swash Kaf" seems to be contrastive in Sindhi. See
> ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/arabtex/doc/arabdoc.pdf
> page 49's transliteration table, where "k" produces a swash kaf and
> "kh" a keheh.

Correct, I apologize. This is confirmed by other online sources:

http://www.geocities.com/sindhnj/sindhialpha.html (rightmost column, 3rd row
from bottom);
http://www.sindhiinfo.com/learn/lesson11.asp

_ Marco

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