Turned P (
P p) is an additional letter of the
Latin script which was used in the orthographies of certain
Siouan languages
Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east.
Name
Authors who call the entire ...
, mostly by
James Owen Dorsey in the 19th century. Its lowercase form is used in the
Anthropos alphabet
Americanist phonetic notation, also known as the North American Phonetic Alphabet (NAPA), the Americanist Phonetic Alphabet or the American Phonetic Alphabet (APA), is a system of phonetic notation originally developed by European and American an ...
, the phonetic alphabet of the journal ''Anthropos''.
This letter has the form of a turned
P, namely turned 180 degrees.
Usage
James Owen Dorsey used turned P in his published works to represent [], a Tenseness, tense consonant present in three Dhegihan languages, the Omaha–Ponca language, Omaha-Ponca language, the Quapaw language, Quapaw language, and the Kansa language, Kansa language. It is also used for the Osage language, but this is erroneous as the sound
ːdoes not exist, but a preaspirated
pconsonant corresponds.
In the
Anthropos transcription, is used to represent the
bilabial click.
File:Turned T and Turned P in Dorsey, Omaha Sociology, 1884.png, Turned P, in Dorsey 1884.
Computing codes
Turned P has not yet been encoded in
Unicode.
Notes and references
Bibliography
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copie sur omahatribe.unl.edu
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See also
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Latin script
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P
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Komi De, a
homoglyph
In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is one of two or more graphemes, characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar. The designation is also applied to sequences of characters sharing these properties.
Synoglyphs ...
of this letter
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Latin script