Heng (letter)
| Heng | |
|---|---|
| Ꜧ ꜧ | |
 | |
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| Usage | |
| Writing system | Latin script |
| Type | Alphabetic |
| Language of origin | Unified Northern Alphabet |
| Sound values | |
| In Unicode | U+A726,U+A727 |
Heng is a letter of the Latin alphabet, originating as a typographic ligature of h and ŋ. It was originally used for a voiceless [j]-like sound in Dania transcription of the Danish language (in Dania, it is considered a ligature of h and j).
Heng was used word-finally in early transcriptions of Mayan languages, where it may have represented a uvular fricative.
It is sometimes used to write Judeo-Tat.[citation needed]
Heng has been occasionally used by phonologists to represent a jocular phoneme in English, which includes both [h] and [ŋ] as its allophones, to illustrate the limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. /h/ and /ŋ/ are separate phonemes in English, even though no minimal pair for them exists due to their complementary distribution.[1]
Heng is also used in Bantu linguistics to indicate a voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮ].[2] Heng was also historically used in the IPA for this sound, and later a compromise form between the two symbols ⟨.svg){kind=small}
⟩ was used.
Both U+A726 Ꜧ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER HENG and U+A727 ꜧ LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG are encoded in Unicode block Latin Extended-D; they were added with Unicode version 5.1 in April 2008. The superscript U+AB5C ꭜ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG is in Latin Extended-E, added in Unicode 7.0 in June 2014.
Transcription
[edit]A variant form, U+0267 ɧ LATIN SMALL LETTER HENG WITH HOOK, is encoded as part of the IPA Extensions Block. It is used to represent the voiceless palatal-velar fricative in the International Phonetic Alphabet. U+10797 𐞗 MODIFIER LETTER SMALL HENG WITH HOOK is used as a superscript IPA letter.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Hornsby, David (2014). Linguistics: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself. John Murray Press. ISBN 9781444180343.
- ^ Wells, John (3 November 2006). "The symbol ɮ". John Wells’s phonetic blog. Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University College London. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ Miller, Kirk; Ashby, Michael (2020-11-08). "L2/20-252R: Unicode request for IPA modifier-letters (a), pulmonic" (PDF).
Further reading
[edit]- Chao, Yuen Ren (1934). "The non-uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems". Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. 4 (4): 363–397.
- Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. University of Chicago Press. p. 77.
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