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The modifier letter right half ring () is a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range, used to transliterate: * the letter aleph * the Arabic letter hamza See also * Modifier letter left half ring * Half ring * Apostrophe * Glottal stop * Glottal stop (letter) The character , called glottal stop, is an alphabetic letter in some Latin alphabets, most notably in several languages of Canada where it indicates a glottal stop sound. Such usage derives from phonetic transcription, for example the Inter ... * Spiritus lenis Phonetic transcription symbols {{phonetics-stub ...
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Modifier Letter Left Half Ring
The modifier letter left half ring (  ) is a character of the Unicode Spacing Modifier Letters range, used to transliterate the letter ayin ''Ayin'' (also ''ayn'' or ''ain''; transliterated ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac ܥ, and Arabic (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). The letter represents a ..., representing the sound {{IPA link, ʕ, , }. See also * Modifier letter right half ring * Half ring * Apostrophe * Glottal stop * Glottal stop (letter) * Spiritus asper Phonetic transcription symbols ...
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Spacing Modifier Letters
Spacing Modifier Letters is a Unicode block containing characters for the IPA, UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for aspiration and palatalization. The word ''spacing'' indicates that these characters occupy their own horizontal space within a line of text. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Modifier Letters. Character table Compact table History The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Spacing Modifier Letters block: See also * Phonetic symbols in Unicode Unicode supports several phonetic scripts and notations through the existing writing systems and the addition of extra blocks with phonetic characters. These phonetic extras are derived from an existing script, usually Latin, Greek or Cyrillic. A ... References {{reflist Unicode blocks ...
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Aleph
Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac , Arabic ʾ and North Arabian 𐪑. It also appears as South Arabian 𐩱 and Ge'ez . These letters are believed to have derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an ox's head to describe the initial sound of ''*ʾalp'', the West Semitic word for ox (compare Biblical Hebrew ''ʾelef'', "ox"). The Phoenician variant gave rise to the Greek alpha (), being re-interpreted to express not the glottal consonant but the accompanying vowel, and hence the Latin A and Cyrillic А. Phonetically, ''aleph'' originally represented the onset of a vowel at the glottis. In Semitic languages, this functions as a prosthetic weak consonant, allowing roots with only two true consonants to be conjugated in the manner of a standard three consonant Semitic root. In most Hebrew dialects as well as Syriac, the ''aleph'' is an absence of a true cons ...
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