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The letters chosen for the IPA are meant to harmonize with the Latin alphabet. [note 7] For this reason, most letters are either Latin or Greek, or modifications thereof. Some letters are neither: for example, the letter denoting the glottal stop, 蕯 , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.
Old form of 蓲 , but still used in some italic fonts as the symbol for to avoid confusion with italic "small turned letter a" that written as 蓲 for . 饾将 (a) reversed a: near-open front unrounded vowel: æ: Proposed in 1989, rejected [6] c: c: t汀蕛, t汀蓵 or sometimes t汀s. broad transcription nv ligature close front rounded vowel: y
The characters in the "Spacing Modifier Letters" block are intended as forming a unity with the preceding letter (which they "modify"). E.g. the character U+02B0 拾 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL H isn't intended simply as a superscript h (h), but as the mark of aspiration placed after the letter being aspirated, as in p拾 "aspirated voiceless bilabial ...
For the Latin sounds represented by the various letters see Latin spelling and pronunciation; for the names of the letters in English see English alphabet. Diacritics were not regularly used, but they did occur sometimes, the most common being the apex used to mark long vowels , which had previously sometimes been written doubled.
If the labiovelars were just labialized forms of the "plain velars", they would then have been pronounced *[q史], *[散史], *[散史时] but the pronunciation of the labiovelars as *[k史], *[伞史], *[伞史时] would still be possible in uvular theory, if the satem languages first shifted the "palatovelars" and then later merged the "plain velars" and ...
Italic a takes its traditional shape, which would later be made distinct in the IPA. That is, italic a was 蓱 , and italic 蓯, 蓲 . Long vowels are written double. Nasal vowels with an italic nasal consonant letter, such as a饾憶 or (for French) a艐 . These are defined by Sweet as:
Use italics when writing about words as words, or letters as letters (to indicate the use–mention distinction). Examples: The term panning is derived from panorama, which was coined in 1787. Deuce means 'two'. (Linguistic glosses go in single quotation marks.) The most common letter in English is e.
In his Vox Latina: A guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latin, William Sidney Allen remarked that this pronunciation, used by the Catholic Church in Rome and elsewhere, and whose adoption Pope Pius X recommended in a 1912 letter to the Archbishop of Bourges, "is probably less far removed from classical Latin than any other 'national ...