ɤ

Ram's horn
Ram's horn
Ɤ ɤ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	Alphabetic and logographic
Sound values	[ɤ]
In Unicode	U+A7CB, U+0264
History
Development	Ο Υ Ȣ ȣ Ɤ ɤ; ;
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.

Ram's horn (majuscule: Ɤ, minuscule: ɤ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet used in the International Phonetic Alphabet to transcribe a close-mid back unrounded vowel and in the 2014 Eastern Dan orthography and the 2020 Goo orthography in Cote d'Ivoire. The letter has curves terminals since the 1989 Kiel convention, before it had straight diagonal terminals like a small capital Latin letter gamma (Ɣ) and was called baby gamma. It's origin is a letter of the 1845 English Phonotypic Alphabet^[1] of Isaac Pitman and Alexander John Ellis, used for the vowel of owl or house and based on the Greek ligature omicron-upsilon like the Latin letter ou (Ȣ ȣ).

Usage

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) uses the lowercase of the letter ram's horn:

U+0264 ɤ LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN represents the close-mid back unrounded vowel.

In Cote d'Ivoire, the 2014 Eastern Dan orthography and the 2020 Goo orthography use both uppercase and lowercase of the letter ram's horn:

The lowercase letter ram's horn has been in Unicode since version 1.1 and the uppercase letter since version 16.0.

Character information
Preview	ɤ		Ɤ
Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RAMS HORN		LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	612	U+0264	42955	U+A7CB
UTF-8	201 164	C9 A4	234 159 139	EA 9F 8B
Numeric character reference	ɤ	ɤ	Ɤ	Ɤ

Pullum, Geoffrey K.; Ladusaw, William A. (1996). Phonetic Symbol Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-68535-7.