Ɯ
Letter of the Zhuang alphabet / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ) (also ) is a letter that was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent a close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/. At some time in or before 1986, it was replaced with W. It was also used in Semyon Novgorodov's Yakut alphabet.
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For the Cyrillic letter sha with a similar-looking lower-case form, see Sha (Cyrillic). For the Armenian letter ayb with a similar-looking lower-case form, see Ayb (letter). For the vowel sound with this symbol in IPA, see Close back unrounded vowel.
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Type | alphabetic |
Language of origin | International Phonetic Alphabet, Yakut language, Tsakhur, Standard Zhuang, Dan language, Chami language |
Phonetic usage | /ɨˤ/, /ɯ/ |
Unicode codepoint | U+0193, U+026F |
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In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it is used to represent the same vowel.
In some fonts, it is homoglyphic with the Cyrillic letter Sha, and in this manner it was used in the Tsakhur language,[1] representing the pharyngealized close central unrounded vowel /ɨˤ/. It is represented today by the digraph ЫI.