ᶈ

P with palatal hook (ᶈ) is a Latin letter formerly used in the International Phonetic Alphabet which became obsolete in 1989, following the Kiel Convention. It was also used in the Latinized scripts of the Tabasaran, Kurdish, Lak and Lezgian languages in the 1920s.

IPA usage ᶈ was used to represent a palatalized voiceless bilabial plosive prior to 1989, represented today as .

Latinized Soviet scripts

Usage ᶈ was introduced for the Tabasaran, Lak, Lezgin and Kurdish Latin alphabets to represent various bilabial phonemes in the different languages. In Kurdish, it represented an aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive ( in IPA). In the other languages, it represented the bilabial ejective stop ( in IPA). In certain fonts, it can appear as a tick (cf. er with tick ) or comma attached to the bowl of the letter.

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Computing codes P with palatal hook can be represented with the following Unicode characters:

See also

P Hook (diacritic) Palatal hook

References

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