Re: Why there are lot of extra Alphabets in Urdu
about the bold part, i dont think this is the case. actually i’m glade they were able to mention at least one word that starts with “zhe”, but i doubt anyone can easily find any word which starts with “Ray” you know that “ray” with a “toye” top… in urdu (and may be in other similar scripts) there are some alphabets/glyphs which are used most of the time in the middle of a word, not in the start, as long as they serve meaningful purpose and have a unique sound of their own, i dont think we can call them “extra”
and yes i’ve seen this “xhe” in other places than urdu qaida, and those other places are science books in urdu language, where you use different terms of science as it is in urdu language and wont have their translated counterparts… eg: vision, i also saw “pleasure” written in urdu somewhere in inverted comas, so yeah they are used, though rarely but used anyway.