Ƹ
| 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 |
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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.
Although it looks like a reversed ezh (Ʒ), it is based on the Arabic letter ʿayn (ع). (Unicode, however, refers to it expressly as "reversed ezh.")