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Turned H (uppercase: Ɥ, lowercase: ɥ) is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet, based on a turned form of H. It is used in the Dan language in Liberia . [ 1 ] Its lowercase form is used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent the voiced labial–palatal approximant .
With the adoption of letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in various national alphabets, letter case forms have been developed. This usually means capital ( uppercase ) forms were developed, but in the case of the glottal stop ʔ , both uppercase Ɂ and lowercase ɂ are used.
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, ʔ , originally had the form of a question mark with the dot removed.
This is a list of letters of the Latin script. The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
Letters: Uppercase. U+00D8 Ø 216 0303 0230 Ø Latin Capital letter O with stroke: 0152 U+00D9 Ù 217 0303 0231 Ù Latin Capital letter U with grave: 0153
Latin Extended Additional is a Unicode block.. The characters in this block are mostly precomposed combinations of Latin letters with one or more general diacritical marks. . Ninety of the characters are used in the Vietnamese alpha
IPA Extensions is a block (U+0250–U+02AF) of the Unicode standard that contains full size letters used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Both modern and historical characters are included, as well as former and proposed IPA signs and non-IPA phonetic letters.
Modern English is written with a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, with each having both uppercase and lowercase forms. The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the ...