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Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin | |||
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Ƹ ƹ | |||
Usage | |||
Writing system |
Latin script International Phonetic Alphabet | ||
Type | Alphabetic | ||
Language of origin |
Arabic language Romanization of Arabic | ||
Phonetic usage | ʕ | ||
Unicode codepoint | U+01B8, U+01B9 | ||
History | |||
Development |
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Sisters |
O Ʒ ߋ ߜ ࠏ ݝ ݟ ڠ ݞ ࢳ ᴥ 𐎓 ჺ 𐫙 ࡘ 𐢗 ʕ ʢ | ||
Other | |||
Writing direction | Left-to-right | ||
Ƹ ( minuscule: ƹ) is a letter of the Latin script. It was used for a voiced pharyngeal fricative, represented in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʕ], in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, for example by John Rupert Firth and Terence Frederick Mitchell, or in the 1980s by Martin Hinds and El-Said Badawi. [1]
Although it looks like a reversed ezh (Ʒ), it is based on the Arabic letter ʿayn (ع). [1] (Unicode, however, refers to it expressly as "reversed ezh.")