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1 The placement of the hook on the capital Ƴ  





2 Alternative representations  





3 See also  



3.1  Alphabets with this letter  







4 Notes  





5 References  














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Y with hook
Ƴ ƴ
Y with hook in Doulos SIL
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
Typealphabet
Phonetic usage[] [ʔʲ] [ʄ]
History
Development
T3
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This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

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, [ʔʲ], 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]

The placement of the hook on the capital Ƴ[edit]

The original Unicode charts showed the hook on the left, while most use in Africa had it on the right, as reflected in the 1978 African reference alphabet. The Unicode usage apparently followed that shown in ISO 6438, but it is not clear where the latter got it. The form used in the code charts was later changed to show the hook on the right side.[2][3]

Alternative representations[edit]

An alternative representation of the sound is ʼy. This is used in the orthographies of Hausa and FulainNigeria, while ƴ is used in Niger for Hausa, and in most of West Africa for Fula. See also: Pan-Nigerian alphabet

In the orthography for languages of Guinea (pre-1985), yh was used instead of ƴ.

See also[edit]

Alphabets with this letter[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Une esquisse de la phonologie de la langue noon". SIL International. 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  • ^ "Errata Fixed in Unicode 4.1.0". 2004-11-15. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  • ^ "Approved Minutes of the UTC 101 / L2 198 Joint Meeting". 2004-11-15. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
  • References[edit]


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