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]

Reversed eʒ/Ƹayin
Ƹ ƹ
Usage
Writing systemLatin script
International Phonetic Alphabet
TypeAlphabetic
Language of originArabic language
Romanization of Arabic
Sound values[ʕ]
In UnicodeU+01B8, U+01B9
History
Development
SistersO
Ʒ
ߋ
ߜ

ݝ
ݟ
ڠ
ݞ


𐎓

ע
𐫙

𐢗
ʕ
ʢ
Other
Writing directionLeft-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.

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.")

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