Ƴ (minuscule: ƴ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Y with the addition of a hook. The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. See also Horn (diacritic Ɓ ɓ Ƈ ƈ Ɗ ɗ Ɠ ɠ It is used in some African languages, such as Fula and Hausa, to represent a palatalized glottal stop (IPA: /ʔʲ/). There are an estimated 2000 Languages spoken in Africa. About a hundred of these are widely used for inter-ethnic communication The Fula language is a language of West Africa, spoken by the Ful{{IPA|ɓ}}e (Fula or Fulani people from Senegambia and Guinea to Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers spoken as a first Language by about 24 million people and as a second language by about 15 Palatalization or palatalisation (ˌpælətəlɨˈzeɪʃən generally refers to two phenomena As a process or the result of a process This article is about the sound in spoken language For the letter see Glottal stop (letter. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA is a system of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic
The placement of the hook on the capital Ƴ
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. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's An African reference alphabet was first proposed in 1978 by a UNESCO -organized conference held in Niamey, Niger, and the proposed Alphabet The Unicode usage apparently followed that shown in ISO 6438, but it is not clear where the latter got it. ISO 6438, "Documentation - African coded character set for bibliographic information interchange" is an ISO standard for African language 8-bit The form used in the code charts was changed recently to show the hook on the right side.
Alternative representations
An alternative representation of the sound is ʼy. This is used in the orthographies of Hausa and Fula in Nigeria, while ƴ is used in Niger for Hausa, and in most of West Africa for Fula. Hausa is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers spoken as a first Language by about 24 million people and as a second language by about 15 The Fula language is a language of West Africa, spoken by the Ful{{IPA|ɓ}}e (Fula or Fulani people from Senegambia and Guinea to Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Niger ( or /ˈnaɪdʒɚ/) officially the Republic of Niger, is a Landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. West Africa or Western Africa is the Westernmost Region of the African Continent. See also: Pan-Nigerian Alphabet
In the orthography for languages of Guinea (pre-1985), yh was used instead of ƴ. The Pan-Nigerian Alphabet is a set of 33 Latin letters standardized by the National Language Centre of Nigeria in the 1980s Following independence the government of Guinea adopted rules of transcription for the Languages of Guinea based on the 26-letter Latin alphabet.
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Ɓ ( minuscule: ɓ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. The lower case ɓ represents a Voiced bilabial implosive in the International Phonetic Ƈ ( minuscule: ƈ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from C with the addition of a hook. Ɗ ( minuscule: ɗ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. The lower case ɗ represents a voiced dental or alveolar implosive in the G with hook (majuscule Ɠ, minuscule ɠ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. Ƙ ( minuscule: ƙ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in Hausa to represent an ejective k ( IPA: /kʼ/ ISO 646 is an ISO standard that since 1972 has specified a 7- Bit character code from which several national standards are derived The letter A is the first letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (eɪ plural B is the second letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled bee or occasionally be (biː plural bees. C is the third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cee or occasionally ce (siː D is the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled dee or occasionally de (diː E is the fifth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled e (iː plural es or ees (also written E's E F is the sixth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ef or eff (ɛf G is the seventh letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled gee or occasionally ge (dʒiː I is the ninth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its English name is i (aɪ J is the tenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet; it was the last of the 26 letters to be added K is the eleventh letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled kay (keɪ L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el or occasionally ell (ɛl M is the thirteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled em (ɛm N is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled en (ɛn O is the fifteenth letter of the modern Latin Alphabet. Its name in English is spelled o (oʊ plural usually o's or os; sometimes P is the sixteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled pee or occasionally pe (piː Q is the seventeenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled cue (kjuː R is the eighteenth letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ar (ɑr pronounced or) S is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ess or occasionally es (ɛs generally es- T is the twentieth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled tee or occasionally te (tiː U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled u (juː V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled vee or occasionally ve (viː W is the twenty-third letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled double-u (ˈdʌbljuː X is the twenty-fourth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is spelled ex or occasionally ecks (ɛks plural exes The letter Y is the twenty-fifth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Z is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the modern Latin alphabet. A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation History An early precursor of the acute accent was the apex, used in Latin inscriptions to mark long vowels. 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The lower case ɓ represents a Voiced bilabial implosive in the International Phonetic Ƈ ( minuscule: ƈ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from C with the addition of a hook. Ɗ ( minuscule: ɗ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet. The lower case ɗ represents a voiced dental or alveolar implosive in the G with hook (majuscule Ɠ, minuscule ɠ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet. Ƙ ( minuscule: ƙ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in Hausa to represent an ejective k ( IPA: /kʼ/ The Latin alphabet originated in the 7th century BC, undergoing a history of 2500 years before emerging as one of the dominant Writing systems in use today Palaeography, palæography ( British) or paleography ( American) (from the Greek grc παλαιός palaiós, Variants of the Latin alphabet are used by the Writing systems of many languages throughout the world A diacritic ( also called a diacritic or diacritical mark, point, or sign, is a small sign added to a letter to alter pronunciation Roman numerals are a Numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. Unicode as of version 51 defines the following ranges for encoding the Latin alphabet and derived characters See also Mapping of Unicode characters List of Latin letters. Basic alphabet Extensions and ligatures Letters with diacritics Digraphs trigraphs and tetragraphs
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