From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 17:43:22 CST
On 16/03/2005 15:37, Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> ...
>
> The situation you point out reminds me of Ladusaw & Pullam's "heng"
> character, which has no serious meaning or use, but is listed mainly
> to give the "hooktop heng" letter, ɧ U+0267 LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG
> WITH HOOK, a name. Apparently the same logic is being applied by
> Unicode, since U+0267, by its name, would appear to be a letter Heng
> with a hook, but nowhere do we find a letter Heng.
>
Actually, Mark and others, the Heng without a hook was used in a Latin
script orthography for Judeo-Tat of Azerbaijan and southern Russia, and
now of Israel, which was used in the 1920's and 1930's (as mentioned in
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/communities/world/cis/azerbaijan.cfm)
and revived in the 1990's. In fact it may be a variant form of LATIN
SMALL LETTER H WITH DESCENDER which is I understand being proposed
because of its use in the Uighur Latin alphabet. I cannot find proper
evidence of the use of heng, to determine whether it is a separate
character or a variant shape of h with descender.
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