Re: On the upcoming LATIN LETTER SMALL CAPITAL Q

From: Yifán Wáng <747.neutron_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:44:18 +0900

Now I start to wonder if the description would be "Letter for
phonetics and Japanese phonology" or "Letter for scholarly
transcription" etc.

2016-12-27 18:54 GMT+09:00 Denis Jacquerye <moyogo_at_gmail.com>:
> For what it’s worth, the small capital q was used as an IPA symbol for a
> while. It was used for the Arabic ʻayn as a “consonne roulée gutturale” in
> the 1898 IPA chart (previously noted 3 in the 1894 IPA charts and ᴈ in some
> 1895 IPA charts and later charts) then as a “consonne fricative bronchiale
> sonore” in the 1905 and 1908 IPA charts, and in the notes after the IPA
> chart in 1912. It was eventually replaced with the reversed glottal stop ʕ,
> for example in the 1932 IPA chart or later charts.
Received on Tue Dec 27 2016 - 22:45:39 CST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Dec 27 2016 - 22:45:40 CST