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Ve (Arabic letter)


Ve or Vāʼ (ڤ‎) is a letter of the Arabic-based Sorani, Comoro, Wakhi, Malay Arabic, Karakhanid alphabets derived from the Arabic letter fāʾ () with two additional dots. It represents the sound /v/ for all alphabets, except for Malay. It is sometimes used in Arabic language to write names and loanwords with the phoneme /v/, such as ڤولڤو (Volvo) and ڤيينا viyenna (Vienna).

It is also frequently used in Israel for transcribing names that have a /v/ sound into Arabic, which is one of Israel's official languages, on signs and labels.

In Jawi script, used for Malay language, ڤ‎ stands for /p/.


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