Writing and Printing

Glottal stop (letter)

ʔ (majuscule: Ɂ, minuscule: ɂ), called a gelded question mark or simply a glottal stop, is an alphabetic letter in some Latin alphabets, most notably in several languages of Canada where it indicates a glottal stop sound. Such usage derives from phonetic transcriptions, for example the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), that use this letter for the glottal stop sound. The letter derives historically from an apostrophe ⟨ʼ⟩, as does the half ring ⟨ʾ⟩.

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• ▸Czech language
• ▸Bazhenov Formation
• ▸Jingpo language

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