ꜰ

Not to be confused with F.

ꜰ, called small capital F, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet which was used in the International Phonetic Alphabet and in the First Icelandic Grammatical Treatise in the Middle Ages.

Small capital F
ꜰ
Usage
Writing system	Latin script

Usage

In the Middle Ages, the author of the First Icelandic Grammatical Treatise used ⟨ꜰ⟩ to transcribe the geminate f.^[1]

Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington, as well as Wilfred William Robbins, John Peabody Harrington and Barbara Freire-Marreco use the small capital f ⟨ꜰ⟩ in the transcription Tewa in ethnobotanical and ethnozoological works published in 1914^[2] and 1916.^[3]

From its beginnings until 1926, The International Phonetic Alphabet used ⟨ꜰ⟩ to represent a voiceless bilabial fricative consonant, noted [ɸ] following the Copenhagen Conference of 1925.^[4]

In 1947, Morris Swadesh used a small capital f ⟨ꜰ⟩ to phonetically transcribe a bilabial spirant consonant from Ixtlán Zapotec.^[5]

Computer representations

The small capital F can be represented with the following Unicode (Latin Extended-D) characters:

forms	representations	Strings of characters	Code points	descriptions
minuscule	ꜰ	ꜰU+A730	U+A730	Latin small capital letter f

See also

• Additional letters of the Latin alphabet
• B ʙ
• ɢ
• Ɪ ɪ
• Ʀ ʀ
• Small caps