IPA: Best practice?

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  • André G. Isaak
    André G. Isaak Posts: 634
    edited November 2024
    I think the character on the left is ᶍ and the one to its right is UAB59
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,264
    Ah yes. Brill didn’t want the German dialectology characters, so I never paid much attention to most of them (excepting the Latin chi, which is more widely used).
  • Igor Freiberger
    Igor Freiberger Posts: 282
    edited November 2024
    It's from the Latin Extended E block, in the section for German dialectology. I kept it in phonetics area of my font, but it's not part of IPA.

    AB59 – LATIN SMALL LETTER X WITH LONG LEFT LEG WITH SERIF

    Actually, there is a set of "x" with left legs, quite strange creatures. I used the original reference to create the glyph but later Unicode updated the way the serif is drawn. I need to update it too.


  • Denis Moyogo Jacquerye
    Denis Moyogo Jacquerye Posts: 199
    Except for the obsolete IPA ᶍ 1D8D X WITH PALATAL HOOK, these x and chi symbols are not IPA nor non standard IPA but since we’re discussing them:

    The ꭗ AB59 LATIN SMALL LETTER X WITH LONG LEFT LEG is a hybrid between chi and x.

    Teuthonista transcriptions can use superscripts or subscripts, next or also over and under, to indicate a sound is pronounced a bit like another, so one can use χˣ or xᵡ to note a consonant between χ and x, or even with the first a bit closer to χ and the second closer to x. I guess in handwriting it can get difficult to see which is which. To be clearer or as a shortcut for the one in-between, the symbol ꭗ was created.

    In some works it’s just an italic Greek-like chi with a cut bottom left leg, like the following x ꭗ χ:
    Some works just use a small chi or a squashed chi for x, like the following x/χ ꭗ:

    In other works it is based on the italic Latin-like round chi and has one side from chi and the other side from x, like the following χ ꭗ x:

    Then in some works it has the shape of an x with a long right leg, like the following χ x ꭗ:

    The symbols with ring ꭔ ꭘ ꭖ are based on those three and denote fortis or voiceless equivalents. The works that have ꭗ with a long right leg also have ꭘ with a long right leg and the ring is on the long right leg.
    When used, the symbols with serifs ꭕ ꭙ denote consonants respectively between χ and ꭗ and between ꭗ and x.
    I don’t know if there are works that that have ꭗ with a right long leg using the symbols with serifs ꭕ ꭙ or if they would have the serifs on the same side as the long leg.

    Similarly ꭎ AB4E LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH SHORT RIGHT LEG can also have it’s short leg on the other side in some works.

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