Jump to content

N with long right leg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Gorobay (talk | contribs) at 13:14, 18 September 2013 (ce). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Ƞ ƞ

N with long right leg (majuscule: Ƞ, minuscule: ƞ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used to represent the nasalization of vowel in Lakota[1] as defined in the 1982 orthography.[2] It should not be confused with ŋ, the letter used in its place in a more recent Lakota orthography[3] and for a velar nasal sound in many languages, nor with ɳ used in IPA for a retroflex nasal. Its lowercase form is also very similar to the lowercase Greek letter eta (η) which was used in print when no better glyph was available. In IPA the symbol /ƞ/ was used to transcribe a syllabic alveolar nasal from 1951 to 1976 but it is now transcribed with /n̩/.

It is encoded in Unicode as U+0220 Ƞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG and U+019E ƞ LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG.

Notes and references

  1. ^ Lakota Dictionary, Sage and Sweetgrass, 2008
  2. ^ Michael Everson, Proposal to add LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH LONG RIGHT LEG to the UCS, 29 November 2000
  3. ^ New Lakota Dictionary Online, Lakota Language Consortium, 2008-2013
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=N_with_long_right_leg&oldid=573495194"