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Special characters

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As noted in A Grammar of the Persian Language/Of the Letters, this work uses some special characters to represent Persian letters, as follows:

Persian Latin Encoding Explanation
ت or ṭ (p.4)
ث or ṣ
ح or ḥ "with a dot under it, to distinguish it from ه‎" (p.5)
ژ j͏̇͏̇ {{cdm|{{cdm|j|307}}|307}}
or j̇̇
"It may be expressed in our characters by j͏̇͏̇ with two dots" (p.6-7). NOTE: it is necessary to add the "combining dot above" character twice, because the usual dot above the j is omitted in most fonts when combined with a diacritic. Some fonts may incorrectly display the j's original dot, resulting in three dots over the j.
ص s͏̤͏̣ {{cdm|{{cdm|s|324}}|323}}
or s̤̣
(p.7)
ض z͏̈͏̇ {{cdm|{{cdm|z|308}}|307}}
or z̈̇
ط t͏̤ {{cdm|t|324}} or t̤
ظ z͏̈͏̈ {{cdm|{{cdm|z|308}}|308}}
or z̈̈
ع ع ع or ع "as no letters can convey an idea of its force, we have, in imitation of Meninski, used the Arabick form in combination with the Roman and Italick characters" (p.7-8)
ق or ḳ (p.8)
ك (ک) k͏̤ {{cdm|k|324}} or k̤
ه h͏̤ {{cdm|h|324}} or h̤ "ه h͏̤e, is a slight aspiration. [...] At the end of a Persian word it is often unaspirated. [...] In the first case it may be represented by h͏̤, in the second by h." (p.8)

Vowels have diacritics depending on pronunciation, as follows: a e i o u; ă ĕ ĭ ŏ ŭ; ā ē ī ō ū. —Beleg Tâl (talk) 15:37, 28 September 2021 (UTC)Reply