Reversed ezh

Ƹ (minuscule: ƹ) is a letter of the Latin script. It was used for a voiced pharyngeal fricative [ʕ] in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, for example by John Rupert Firth and Terence Frederick Mitchell, or in the 1980s by Martin Hinds and El-Said Badawi.^[1]

Writing systemLatin script
International Phonetic Alphabet

TypeAlphabetic

Language of originArabic language
Romanization of Arabic

Sound values[ʕ]

Quick facts Usage, Writing system ...

Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin
Ƹ ƹ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script International Phonetic Alphabet
Type	Alphabetic
Language of origin	Arabic language Romanization of Arabic
Sound values	[ʕ]
In Unicode	U+01B8, U+01B9
History
Development	ع ـع ـعـ عـ ع Ƹ ƹ
Sisters	O Ʒ ߋ ߜ ࠏ ݝ ݟ ڠ ݞ ࢳ ᴥ 𐎓 ჺ ע 𐫙 ࡘ 𐢗 ʕ ʢ
Other
Writing direction	Left-to-right
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.

Close

Although it looks like a reversed ezh (Ʒ), it is based on the Arabic letter ʿayn (ع).^[1] (Unicode, however, refers to it expressly as "reversed ezh.")