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This is just for translators who want to translate names and cannot find the letters (V, G, P)
V: ڤ
G: چ or ڭ
P: پ

They can be found in the MS Word (after clicking on "symbol" button), However these letters are not really used officially.

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Nadine

Salam Salim,

Hope everything is well ?

Thanks for this useful information .

The letters are not used officially, you say. Do you mean that they are not fus7a ? But they are commonly used, I suppose ? In newspapers, and so on ?

Ma3 es salama
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xpsal

Salam Nadine, I'm good thanks for asking, I hope you do the same,
what I meant is that even in news papers they don't really use them if that news paper is really into Arabic, even online news channel like Aljazeera, I don't remember seeing such letters there when they write words of a foreign origins with (V, P, G), they use mainly the common letters such as ف ج ك ب and they let you guess the meaning, I noticed that these 3 dotted letters are used in Morocco and Algeria more than other places, but it doesn't hurt to use them afterall.

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Asminha

Thanks a lot Salim, we'll get to copy them from here eveytime someone asks for a transliteration for a name, and you won't have to correct after us all the time

And oh, I had no idea that they are used in al maghreb more than anywhere else. Interesting!

Shukran.

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you're welcome Asma, you know I used to read some moroccan newspapers (humor newspapers), and they're full of that kind of letters, maybe because we use g in moroccan a lot, and also many words in moroccan came from french or spanish, and obviously they may contain (g, v, or p).

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