Ƹ

Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin
Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin
Ƹ ƹ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script; International Phonetic Alphabet
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Arabic language; Romanization of Arabic
Sound values	[ʕ]
In Unicode	U+01B8, U+01B9
History
Development	ع ـع ـعـ عـ ع Ƹ ƹ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
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
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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.")

References

^ ^a ^b Pullum and Ladusaw (1996), page 209

Bibliography

J. R. Firth (1948). "Sounds and prosodies". Transactions of the Philological Society. 47 (1). 27–152. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968X.1948.tb00556.x.
Martin Hinds; El-Said Badawi (1986). A dictionary of Egyptian Arabic. Beirut: Librairie du Liban. ISBN 9789953865225.
T. F. Mitchell (1952). "The Active Participle in an Arabic Dialect of Cyrenaica". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 14 (1). University of London. 11–33. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00084160. JSTOR 608504. S2CID 191614835.
T. F. Mitchell (1953). "Particle-Noun Complexes in a Berber Dialect (Zuara)". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 15 (2). University of London. 375–390. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00111152. JSTOR 608556. S2CID 122785020.
T. F. Mitchell (1956). An introduction to Egyptian colloquial Arabic. London: Oxford University Press.
T. F. Mitchell (1960). "Prominence and Syllabication in Arabic". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 23 (2). University of London. 369–389. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00149997. JSTOR 609703. S2CID 119423726.
T. F. Mitchell (1962). Colloquial Arabic. London: Teach Yourself Books. ISBN 0-340-05774-2.
Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-68535-7.

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[PullumLadusaw1996p209-1] Pullum and Ladusaw (1996), page 209

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