Che (Persian letter)
Che, or Čīm, or Ce, is a letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet, used to represent, and which derives from ǧīm by the addition of two dots. It is found with this value in other Arabic-derived scripts. It is used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Malay, and other Iranian languages.In Arabic
The letter چ can be used to transcribe of Persian Gulf: Gulf Arabic and Iraqi Arabic, where they have that sound natively. In these countries and the rest of Arabic-speaking geographic regions, the combination of ' is more likely used to transliterate the sound which is often realized as two consonants elsewhere; this letter combination is used for loanwords and foreign names, including those of Spanish origin in Moroccan Arabic.
In Egypt, this letter represents, which can be a reduction of. The pronunciation is also proposed for South Arabian minority languages, like Mehri and Soqotri.
In Israel, where official announcements are often trilingual, this letter is used as the letter gīm''' on roadsigns to represent, when transcribing Hebrew or foreign names of places, since Palestinian Arabic does not have a in its phonemic inventory.Character encodings
