I don't read Pashto but I came across this a few weeks ago:
"The Development of the Pashto Script", by D. N. MacKenzie, in "Languages
and Scripts of Central Asia" edited by Shirin Akiner and Nicholas
Sims-Williams, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
1997
It's mostly about consonant forms, but notes the usage of several forms of
heh, including with surfixed hamza, to denote various final vowels.
I took a quick look at Trumpp's Pashto grammar but didn't see anything about
it there.
Email me if you want more details.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N.R.Liwal [mailto:liwal@liwal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 1:33 AM
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> Its use is Similar to HEH, but sound lik
> HEH and FATAH;
>
> Liwal
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir>
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Cc: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 7:53 PM
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> >
> > What is the pronounciation of the Pashto one? Does is relate
> > anyway to HAMZA (pronounced with glottal stop)? Or has some
> > "y" somewhere in it? I think it is the same character as I told,
> > with the same history.
> >
> > --Roozbeh
> >
> > "N.R.Liwal" wrote:
> > > The HEH With YEH Above is recommended by Mr.Roozbeh from
> Iran and he
> > > says it is uesed in Iran, he will be able to justify that.
> > >
> > > But HEH with Hamza Above, have Two shapes in Pashto,
> > > Isolated and Final.
> >
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