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The retroflex hook occurs on alveolar and post-alveolar IPA letters; it also occurs on vowel letters, which currently indicates the effect of a retroflex consonant on the vowel, but formally was an option for writing rhotic vowels.
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G with hook (majuscule: Ɠ, minuscule: ɠ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet.In the International Phonetic Alphabet, its small caps form (U+029B ʛ LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL G WITH HOOK) represents the voiced uvular implosive and its lowercase form represents the voiced velar implosive.
It is a small, leftwards-facing hook joined to the bottom-right side of a letter, and is distinguished from various other hooks indicating retroflexion, etc. Theoretically, it could be used on all IPA consonant letters, – even on those used for palatal consonants, – but it is not attested on all of the IPA letters of its era. [2]
Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו , Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).
Ɗ (minuscule: ɗ), known as D with hook, is a letter of the Latin alphabet. The lower case, ɗ represents a voiced dental implosive or a voiced alveolar implosive in the International Phonetic Alphabet .
Ƴ (minuscule: ƴ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a hook. It is used in some African languages, such as Fula, to represent a palatalized glottal stop, , and in Hausa to represent a creaky voiced palatal approximant [j̰]. In Noon, a language spoken in Senegal, ƴ represents a voiced palatal implosive [ʄ]. [1]
A variant form, U+0267 ɧ LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG WITH HOOK, is encoded as part of the IPA Extensions Block. It is used to represent the voiceless palatal-velar fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet. U+10797 ޗ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK is used as a superscript IPA letter. [3]